Not for Amiga, but what harddisc do you connect to a Firewire internal port ???

[Effy]

Sorry to ask something that is not really Amiga related (yet) but I have two pc´s with Firewire with also an internal port for a so called harddisc, but I have no idea what kind of harddisc to connect. An ide doesn´t fit so what now I use the Firewire´s only to connect a DV videocamera but I like to use all the options of any piece of hardware

[Clooned]

Yesterday I saw a external Lacie HD in a friend's house. It was connected via firewire 400 but it supports 800Mbps.   :-o

[McNorris]

You can get IDE to Firewire or SCSI to Firewire adapters that will enable you to mount a drive internally and cable it via firewire.

[Floid]

At one point, people expected 'native' Firewire drives to appear.

That didn't really happen.  (I've heard talk that some Apple laptops might use Firewire optical drives, but I bet those people were simply confused.)

However, the manufacturers keep bothering with them because it makes it nice and clean to route a cable to a frontplate, like one of these things:  first useful hit on Google.

Unless you're out of IDE positions and PCI slots, or have an actual reason to have Firewire hardware around (in which case it'd make more sense to keep it external, anyway, and Firewire cases with the appropriate adapters are probably as cheap as the adapters sold alone), you're best off sticking with IDE, SATA or SCSI... or waiting for SAS, if you're me.

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Yesterday I saw a external Lacie HD in a friend's house. It was connected via firewire 400 but it supports 800Mbps.

Of course, but U320 SCSI will get you 2560Mbps, and SATA will reserve you 1200Mbps per-device (given point-to-point... or do they still play master/slave games there?).  Firewire ain't bad for the number of pins used, but there's a reason Apple's RAIDs are FC.