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 ...

Continuing from yesterday's coverage of external FireWire drives: Granite Digital FireWire/IDE bridge Mark Moorcroft comments about the new Granite Digital FireWire bridge (mentioned yesterday): "As ...

I have an external hard drive onto which I would like to install linux. I also have a laptop with a broken ide controller which has no hard drive. I would like to boot from a floppy disk or cdrom, and ...

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 ...

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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 ...