Does a G5 make a difference? With FireWire it does, apparently

17 Nov 2005

So I'm trying out this new G5. It's astonishingly fast: videos it took 90 minutes to encode now zip past in 10 minutes, even when I'm doing other things - such as encoding more videos.

It's got USB 2.0 so I try using my iPod photo with it and it works just fine, maybe even faster than with FireWire.

Then I have a thought: “I wonder if that flakey external hard drive of mine behaves any better with it”. I've been stress testing the drive for a while now, and all the things that normally bring instant doom to it have no effect when connected to a G5.

So either there's something different about the FireWire hardware used on the G5, or there are bugs in the FireWire drivers of OS X that only manifest them when connected to a G4-equipped computer.

Of course, now I've written this, it's going to start screwing up again, isn't it?

UPDATE: Knew it. Bloody thing.

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Posted by Rob Buckley on Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 9:08 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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