Posted: 5/6/2009 9:17:15 AM EDT
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I'm in an interesting situation.
I have a firewire REV drive for backup and I purchased a new server and it doesn't have any standard PCI or PCI-E slots nor does it have any firewire ports. There is no such thing as a firewire to usb adaptor, the technology cannot support that conversion. I found a combo USB/FIrewire hub but I've heard bad things about them and they all seem to actually connect to the computer through firewire and not USB. Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do next? (besides dumping the firewire REV drive of course) Thx |
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I called Dell and they have a $55 PCIe-x1 firewire card. PCIe-x1 works in PCIe-x4 slots so I think that's the route I'm taking. The one above @ Cyberguys is $20 less. Right, but 3 years from now if the servers having problems I don't want to give Dell a reason to point fingers at another hardware manufacture as the possible cause. If there's one thing I learned about server's its that you want all your hardware bought from one company so they take full responsibility for any issues down the line. The first thing all these companies try to do is place blame elsewhere when there's a problem and the server is so many years old, for $20 I'd rather not give them that opportunity. |