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Brian Luce · March 24th, 2007, 01:30 AM

I have an HD100, a dell laptop, and a firewire external hard drive.

I'd like to use the laptop as a field monitor and record from the camera to the ext hdd via the laptop.

The laptop has only a single four pin firewire port. What's would be the best way to do what I want to do?

Stephen L. Noe · March 24th, 2007, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian Luce

I have an HD100, a dell laptop, and a firewire external hard drive.

I'd like to use the laptop as a field monitor and record from the camera to the ext hdd via the laptop.

The laptop has only a single four pin firewire port. What's would be the best way to do what I want to do?

Purchase a PCMCIA firewire card and connect your external HDD to it. Should work fine.

Brian Luce · March 24th, 2007, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Stephen L. Noe

Purchase a PCMCIA firewire card and connect your external HDD to it. Should work fine.

Thanks for the reply, but it doesn't have pcmcia slot. It's a new dell and they don't put them on any more. I think the standard is pci express or something like that.

Frank Feijen · March 24th, 2007, 03:04 AM

I believe that there are hard disks with multiple firewireconnections out there, but switching to a USB hard disk would be cheaper.

Farishad Latjuba · March 24th, 2007, 05:34 AM

Buy SATA Hardisk, put it in the casing, then attach it to the laptop thru USB 2.0 connection. So, your firewire can be dedicated to the camera.

Brian Luce · March 24th, 2007, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Farishad Latjuba

Buy SATA Hardisk, put it in the casing, then attach it to the laptop thru USB 2.0 connection. So, your firewire can be dedicated to the camera.

Is this a better solution that a firewire port connected to an express slot?

Farishad Latjuba · March 24th, 2007, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian Luce

Is this a better solution that a firewire port connected to an express slot?

I think the throughput in USB is well-assured. Considering the internal SATA with its read/write capability, I believe is a must when ingested with a lot of informations from the camera.
Reason to go with this, since you don't have the PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot in your laptop.

Brian Luce · March 24th, 2007, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Farishad Latjuba

I think the throughput in USB is well-assured. Considering the internal SATA with its read/write capability, I believe is a must when ingested with a lot of informations from the camera.
Reason to go with this, since you don't have the PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot in your laptop.

no it DOES have express card slot.

Farishad Latjuba · March 24th, 2007, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Luce

no it DOES have express card slot.

Great, then you can buy expressCard firewire card.

March 24th, 2007, 01:30 AM	#1
Brian Luce Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,290	laptop, HD100, and Ext. HDD I have an HD100, a dell laptop, and a firewire external hard drive. I'd like to use the laptop as a field monitor and record from the camera to the ext hdd via the laptop. The laptop has only a single four pin firewire port. What's would be the best way to do what I want to do?

March 24th, 2007, 03:04 AM	#4
Frank Feijen Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Brussels - Belgium Posts: 36	I believe that there are hard disks with multiple firewireconnections out there, but switching to a USB hard disk would be cheaper.

March 24th, 2007, 05:34 AM	#5
Farishad Latjuba Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia Posts: 35	Buy SATA Hardisk, put it in the casing, then attach it to the laptop thru USB 2.0 connection. So, your firewire can be dedicated to the camera.