PCI cards for Firewire 800 1394b

[mkygod]

Hi,

I'm looking forward to buy the Western Digital Pro harddrive. I believe it is the first widely available HD with Firewire 800. Anyhow, If I do buy it, I'll be needing an adapter card for Firewire800.

There is such a wide price range of Firewire cards, that I'm not sure of what to go for. They are as cheap as 15 bux all the way up to 100 bux, and that's not even counting the PCI-E solutions which are even more expensive. Are there any cards that have proven to work well? and brands/chipsets should look for or avoid when it comes to firewire cards?

 

[Blain]

Get one with a Texas Instruments controller chip. :thumbsup:

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: mkygod
Hi,

I'm looking forward to buy the Western Digital Pro harddrive. I believe it is the first widely available HD with Firewire 800. Anyhow, If I do buy it, I'll be needing an adapter card for Firewire800.

There is such a wide price range of Firewire cards, that I'm not sure of what to go for. They are as cheap as 15 bux all the way up to 100 bux, and that's not even counting the PCI-E solutions which are even more expensive. Are there any cards that have proven to work well? and brands/chipsets should look for or avoid when it comes to firewire cards?

is it using a raptor? if not 1394a will be fine - 50MB/s is good and pretty close to what the str is of a newer hdd. if the fiiles you are transferring are small, that speed goes down very quickly

just an fyi

 

[mkygod]

No, its using a regular WD 7200 16mb cache hard drive. I'm going to have very large files on it. Movies and videos including 1080p movies that are approx 15 gb each. Also plan on doing some video editing on it.

 

[Blain]

From these benchmarks, it looks like 1394b has the edge on 1394a.
But 1394a is close to USB 2.0 speeds.

I still say, get a TI controller card.

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