Firewire not supported in PT 8.0.5 with Windows 7 Premium

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I've been under the impression for so long that Firewire as opposed to USB is the way to go for audio files. But I found out that Avid recommends USB over Firewire because the drivers in USB have gotten better in Windows 7, and the drivers for firewire are not supported there. Just some interesting news.
 
Where did you read that? It seems odd that they don't support firewire anymore as one of their new interfaces has Firewire connections, but if your on about USB2 being supported for audio transfer to HDD then thats great. . . I only have 1 firewire port which is taken up by my interface and could use some useful external storage.
 
Avid still supports Firewire for audio interfaces.

Avid now recommends USB instead of Firewire for external drives when running PT 9 on Windows 7.

Try going to Avid's web site and reading what it says instead of posting some BS "impression"...
 
I did read this from the Avid forum. That's where I got my information. Of course it's for external drives, that's why I talked about Firewire and USB for audio files in the OP.



There were problems seen with the Win7 firewire drivers when used with firewire drives - problems like yours and a few others, thus we could only qualify SATA and USB drives (USB is much better under Win7 than it was with WinXP). eSATA would also likely work (many reports of people using it without issues), though we didn't specifically test it enough to consider it 'qualified'.

As for the 'drive names with more than 11 characters' - just change the name of any NTFS volumes (drives) to something 11 characters or less.
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bdenton said:
Avid still supports Firewire for audio interfaces.

Avid now recommends USB instead of Firewire for external drives when running PT 9 on Windows 7.

Try going to Avid's web site and reading what it says instead of posting some BS "impression"...
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Thats what I was under the impression of, but if USB2 is now a supported format for 8 (wont be ugrading to 9 soon) that means I can use an USB2 external drive to record my projects to. Making my day quite fankly.
 
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