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So, I installed a Mbox2 Mini on a pc with vista 32bit as the OS, only to realize after I installed it that the pc doesn't have a firewire port on it for an external HD.

Short of buying an actual pci card for the computer, is there a work around for this? I would just use a HD with USB 2.0, but that is expressly forbidden, in fact, I haven't even tried it.

What do you guys think?

Thank you!

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music293 Tue, 01/27/2009 - 13:01

Ok, so buying a pci card is an option.

Also, just to let you know, I tried running with a usb external hd and it works just fine. Granted it was a test run, and with only two tracks of audio with some additional plug-ins, but it did work just fine. I'm not sure what the maxium track count would be though.

Any other thoughts?

And what the heck it s PCIe card? What's the diff?

anonymous Tue, 01/27/2009 - 19:57

PCI and PCIExpress. The difference is the speed of the lower end data bus, I think.
Wiki says "A key difference between PCIe and earlier PC buses is a topology based on point-to-point serial links, rather than a shared parallel bus architecture."
PCIe is the new thing, PCI is oldschool from the early 90's, getting onboard PCIe is well worth it.