Firewire Limit

[fingz999]

I have been looking into external raid units and it seams the firewire ones only go upto 2.25tb and iv heard that firewire in general is only capable of 2.25tbs as the same units if you use the e-sata port are fine,

So does anyone know if this is correct and there is a 2.25tb limit on firewire as ive googled to no avail

cheers in advance

 

[Ham]

Ok are you on about transfer speed or capacity of the drives? You've used the units for each there...

 

[fingz999]

the size of the external storage i.e 5x500gb hard drives in a raid setup

 

[Ham]

The interface has little too do with the storage capacity dude. Its a case of the more you pay the more the enclosure will handle. Most singles can hold up too 500gb. more modern ones 750gb+ drives. Whereas you can get multi drives Nas that will hold more than you can think.

 

[macgamesrule]

Firewire transfer rate is up to 400Mbps. Throughput is generally better than USB 2.0, even though USB is theoretically up to 480Mbps. I don't know about eSATA, I'd guess it's 1.5Gbps like internal SATA, but I'm sure it's better than USB or Firewire.

 

[FarFarAway]

Yep but I can see no limit on the amount of storage for firewire

As Ham said it may be due to the hardware in the NAS

 

[Rastalovich]

Yep but I can see no limit on the amount of storage for firewire

As Ham said it may be due to the hardware in the NAS

Agreed.

Firewire transfer rate is up to 400Mbps. Throughput is generally better than USB 2.0, even though USB is theoretically up to 480Mbps. I don't know about eSATA, I'd guess it's 1.5Gbps like internal SATA, but I'm sure it's better than USB or Firewire.

However, I found it to perform a whole lot less than 400Mbps in practice using windows.

 

[fingz999]

thats ok then thats what i thought as i dont understand how it limits it i think it is the raid controller that stops it in this case