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Originally posted by lark888
USB 2.0 is "a distant last" compared to ATA133 or more exotic Firewire setups. About 40% throughput compared to standard ATA. Not a problem for the CD and DVDs but should be noticable in a 7200 rpm hard drive setup.
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I've gotten about 30MB/sec putting a WD 100 gig 7200RPM drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure. It only got 40MB/sec on ATA133 (though it's only ATA100).