Firewire 400mbps Or 800mbps? Options

[Drainland]

Hi there,

I was just about to purchase a new Imac and a Motu 828 mk11 (when it becomes available) for use with Logic when I noticed in a review that the iMacs only have firewire 400mbps connections as opposed to 800 on the tower systems. So basically what I need to know is will this be fine - and will I still get the best capabilities from my set-up? I also noticed that the new Imacs don't have usb 2.0 - so wondered if this would cause any problems - I'll be using an emagic Mt4 midi interface as well.

many thanks in advance!

[Drainland]

Thanks Robert,

no really I'm not looking to network computers. To start off with I'd just have the motu firewire interface and a firewire harddrive and that might be it. Maybe at most I'd have some other a/v firewire device(s) connected to the computer but that's it. I just didn't know what the lowest rate of MBPS I could get away with was. And I'm sure the firewire sockets on the iMac are shared - so presumably 200MBPS each one. I didn't like the idea I might get latency when I'm paying out for a firewire device so I wouldn't get it. But I'm not really up on the data transfer rates and what they meen for someone who is simply trying to make music on a DAW.