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To accompany a pristine Mac Pro tower I purchased the Iomega UltraMax 640Gb USB/FW400/FW800 external harddrive.

This drive features two disks in RAID 0 and should quench the thurst for IO Logic Pro has when recording 10 tracks at once.

It looks nice, but unfortunately it's not really quiet. I can hear it purring over the fans of the Mac Pro, and sometimes it gets stuck in a 'too-hot, fans on, temp okay, fans off, too-hot, fans on' cycle. Luckily this thing is only for recording and transporting Logic sessions between the 'soundlab' and my desk-top.

Check out the TechcastNetwork review with nice pictures or the MacUser review.

Read more for some benchmarks (using QuickBench 2.1) compared to the internal drive and another FW800 enclosure.

Iomega UltraMax 640Gb RAID0 on FW800

Mac Pro internal 250Gb drive - WDC WD2500JS-41SGB0

Transintl FW800 enclosure with 150Gb Hitachi drive