Western Digital today announced a new . The $400 drive offers a 7,200 RPM mechanism and a 2MB buffer. The drive is expected to ship later this month with a 6-foot 6-pin-to-6-pin FireWire cable and an AC adapter with power cord.
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Is this drive too big to be powered through the FW cable?
If I install this drive on my DP 1.25 GHz, will I be able to use the full 200 GB or am I gonna be still limited by the 128 GB limit?
128 GB isn't an OS X thing, its a hardware thing (please ignore my stupidity on the terminology). I believe the ATA/66 connectors can't support past 128G. However, ATA/100 can. That's why large drives work on only the newer machines, because they're the first from Apple to include ATA-100. Firewire drives aren't true firewire drives, they're ATA drives hooked through an ATA-Firewire connection (like the Oxford 911 chipset). As long as this circuitry supports ATA-100, the drive should be read.
As such, I would assume it would work on any computer, since the computer sees it as a firewire device, not an ATA device.
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At $400, that's mighty kind of them to throw in a $2 cable.