With regard to our previous coverage on the subject (see one and two), we have several more items on FireWire external drives: New ADS ATA bridgeboard due Bob Unger writes: "I recently talked with ...

I haven't had an external drive since I stopped using my SCSI tower about five years ago. Since then I've tolerated the acceptable speeds of IDE for the tradeoff in large amounts of storage. As my box ...

Still no success here As we have reported before, we have never been able to startup from an external FireWire drive using Mac OS X. The drive mounts perfectly as an external drive; it just will not ...

When we tested the first Macs with FireWire 800 ports (Reviews, May 2003), we were hard put to find any peripherals to plug in to them. That’s not the case now: the number of available FireWire ...

Current Situation - <BR><BR>Our networking geniuses here let one of our file servers run out of space and our only solution is to get an external hard drive until our SAN arrives. <BR><BR>The data ...

From Other World Computing, some of the first external hard drives to work with the new FireWire 800 standard which promises transfer speeds of 800mbps, about twice as fast as regular old FireWire.

Western Digital announced Tuesday two new external hard drives with FireWire and USB 2.0 ports for connecting to PCs. The drives come in 120GB and 200GB capacities and have a rotational speed of ...

LaCie announced two new Giga-capacity external hard drives that transmit data to computers at a sustained transfer rate of nearly 35MB/s. With the ability to provide a constant data stream, LaCie says ...

Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) recently announced availability of its 120 GB FireWire external hard drive. The company’s newest WD FireWire external drive is designed with Western Digital’s 7,200 ...

Apple customers unhappy that the company dropped FireWire from its newest notebooks are venting their frustrations on the company’s support forum in several hundred messages. “Apple really screwed up ...