Maxtor Onetouch harddrive seems to be a good choice for you. They have
both Firewire 400 and USB2.0 interface. Maxtor drives Onetouch v2
comes with 16Mbyte cache.
I bought a Firewire-IDE converter without harddrive. I put in a
160Gbyte 8Mb cache Maxtor harddisk in it. I use it with my iBookG4. I
also had USB 2.0-IDE converter. The performance of Firewire 400 is
much better to USB2.0 (burst rate of 480Mbps but lower sustained
rate). I used XBench to benchmark the speed.
As interms of filesystem for the drive. I have not work with NTFS
under Mac but I did use FAT 32. Not stable. It could and had hang my
system (Mac OS X.3). Can't comment about MacDrive but if you use
Linux, HFS+ is supported very well :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Kennedy <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:03:59 -0700
Subject: Hard Drive Formatting for Mixed Mac/PC Use
To: email@hidden
I have an opportunity to get free access to color 0.3-meter digital
orthophotography for two areas in which I'll be producing new
vegetation maps. Aggregate data sizes for the two areas are 130GB and
60GB. The most efficient way to get the data is to purchase a 250GB
drive for the agency to download the data to. The data provider uses
Windows machines. Data use will be primarily on Windows machines.
However, to expedite the data acquisition and minimize bureaucracy, I
will buy the hard drive with personal funds. I'm primarily a Mac user
and I want the drive to be Mac usable after the project is finished.
I know that MacDrive software purports to allow Windows machines to
mount Mac-formatted hard drives, but I have some questions before
making the purchase. I've read a bunch of drive spec sheets, but I'm
hoping that some of you have some real world experience and advice to
guide me.
1) Is the Windows+MacDrive+Mac-formatted HD a good solution, or is
there a better way (i.e., does using MacDrive result lower data
transfer rates that can be avoided by some other solution)?
2) Is there Mac-based software to mount a Windows-formatted hard
drive, and how might that compare to the MacDrive solution?
3) How does the real world performance of Firewire 800 compare to
Firewire 400 and USB 2.0? Is it worth the added cost? The data
provider would use USB 2.0, but I have a dual 1.8 GHz Power Mac with
the faster Firewire 800 as well as USB 2.0
4) Does using a Firewire 800 port at 400 speeds (via a port plug/cable
adapter) cause a speed penalty beyond the drop to 400 speeds?
5) Do 8MB hard drive buffers provide significantly improved
performance over 2MB buffers? I assume so....
6) I also have a 1 GHz Titanium PowerBook with USB 1.0 and Firewire
400. Is it worth considering a CardBus adapter for USB 2.0 or Firewire
800? If so, which?
To minimize traffic on the list server, you could reply to me
directly, if you wish, and I'll post a summary.
Thanks,
Jeff --
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Jeff Kennedy
Vegetation Ecologist/Biogeographer
Information Center for the Environment
Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy
University of California, Davis, CA 95616
Home Office: 510-658-7645
Campus Office: 530-752-1768
Mobile: 510-708-9655
E-mail: email@hidden
Internet: http://ice.ucdavis.edu
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