Firewire 800

Firewire 800 transfers at 800 Mbps.
Firewire 400 (the old standard) transfers at 400 Mbps.
USB 2.0 transfers at 450 Mbps.

According to the folks over at RME (i've been researching the FireFace 800 recently). You can easily track 8 stereo channels with FW400 - it's only if you want to link more than one FireFace together that you'd want FW800 (technically, you can record 35 tracks onto 28 channels with ONE fireface...nevermind if you were to link 2 or 3 of'em) - and that's on one FW400 connection....

LaCie makes a Cardbus adapter with 2 Firewire 800 ports and 1 FW400 port on it for about $80 or so.

According to the folks over at RME (i've been researching the FireFace 800 recently). You can easily track 8 stereo channels with FW400

Do you know what difference firewire contra pci does to latency and performance?

from what I understand - because the RME stuff all has onboard DSP, your processor doesn't really come into play as far as how many tracks you can record at one time...so it should be extremely low latency. as far as the difference between that and PCI, i couldn't tell ya offhand...

ManFromTheBand wrote: Firewire 800 transfers at 800 Mbps.
Firewire 400 (the old standard) transfers at 400 Mbps.
USB 2.0 transfers at 450 Mbps.

According to the folks over at RME (i've been researching the FireFace 800 recently). You can easily track 8 stereo channels with FW400 - it's only if you want to link more than one FireFace together that you'd want FW800 (technically, you can record 35 tracks onto 28 channels with ONE fireface...nevermind if you were to link 2 or 3 of'em) - and that's on one FW400 connection....

LaCie makes a Cardbus adapter with 2 Firewire 800 ports and 1 FW400 port on it for about $80 or so.

LaCie Cardbus, will that fit into a PCMCIA slot???

You mean to tell me USB 2.0 (which I have two of already on my laptop) will allow me to record 8 stereo tracks at one time????