Connecting via FW400, through a La Cie FW800 to a MacMini. Loosing frames every few seconds. Any advice?
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I am assuming the bottleneck is the hard drive. My pc desktop's hard drive is 7200 rpm and there has been zero frame drops.24 MB of system memory, 7200 rpm hd, Adobe premiere. Also the hd to store vid cap was a separate drive from the OS drive. This should give you an idea even though we use different platforms.
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I'm using the cable and the monitor (dell u2713hm) at 2560x1440 (which is the highest resolution). I'm not using it with a mac mini, but the cable supports it.
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Can't say...it hates my Mac Book Air, but the next try is a new iMac. For me latency under 1/2 a second doesn't matter, since I'm broadcasting over Skype. So sorry, can't directly answer your question, but I'm pretty sure in this case latency is going to be directly related to what you're running on that Mac and how fast is that Mac.
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Im on a 2009 Mac Pro and it boots for me. I get about 450MB/s read/write, but that is on PCIe 2.0, of course. Essentially, whatever the max throughput is of your PCIe slot will be the limit of your read/write.
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You need to install the drivers that comes with the adapter. I was only able to connect my macbook pro to max 144mbts. The internal adapter connected to 217mbt. Windows is ok, but no recommended for mac.
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I tried to daisy chain the interface through my firewire Western Digital drive and it created a bad latency issue that i could not seem to fix, so for me, it did not work
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You cannot honestly tell if latency will exist until you use it. What interface are you using? USB or Firewire? 2 gigs of ram seems like a VERY basic machine so I can see potential software slowness, but again, you'd have to try. Just my experience with PCs I am going to say you will have some performance issues across the board.
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False. There is a known incompatibility with this monitor and the newer Mac OS on desktop. A driver or third party solution is what I'm inquiring about.
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I think you need the cheaper Mac display port cable. The TBolt is pretty much for data I believe.
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I am experiencing spin downs and unreliability. I think it is more a mac os x issue rather than the hardware enclosure, and I know that apple is not supporting firewire 800 anymore as they are focusing on thunderbolt, and as I am running version 10.7.5 of Os X, I have multiple spindown and -50 errors on my external 800 hard drives, I am sorry to add more confusion to the mix, mine might be a different story when I update my os x.
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I second jMac62103's reply. I have also looked for adapters with no luck as of yet.
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If this helps, mine is running on the Mac Pro 1,1 Quad-Core (MA356*/A) and handles Yosemite perfectly.
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Sorry, I don't try to use Mac, but honestly I don't recommend this item since I have general connection issue dependent on channel and router.
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I cannot definitively say, but I would assume that the mac would throttle down the speed to match whatever is hooked up to it. At least that is what PC's do to make newer ports "backward compatible".
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Has anyone successfully used the r800 on a MacBook Pro running OSX Yosemite 10.10?
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The fix is a little kludgy... but it can be done. The trick is to look for a "400" to "800" dongle or hub. What you are trying to do is come out of the dongle or hub with a "FW 800" cable and into the Apple Thunderbolt adapter dongle (about $30). I have lots of FW 800 hard drives that I use to feed my new Apple PBRP... and it works just fine ;-{)
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Yes - but I do get disconnects from time to time. Not sure if this is the disk, the card or OS X