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Originally posted by code65536
Incidentally, the benchmarks above are made by a Apple fan, which makes me wonder, as Firewire is one of the things that Apple likes to emphasize. |
i've got a pc and i've gotta say that firewire beats usb2 any day hands down . . . i've got two enclosures - one for my hard drive (
http://www.byteccusa.com/product/enclosure/ME-350.htm) and one for my dvd burner (
http://www.byteccusa.com/product/enc.../ME-320-bk.htm) . . . i got the usb2 and firewire combo models . . .
when i transfer a dvd iso (~4.7gb) from the hd enclosure to my internal drives it takes approximately 8min . . . however, with the firewire it takes about 6min! . . .
this actually shocked me cuz i thought usb2 was faster because of the 480Mbit bandwidth whereas firewire is only 400Mbit . . . but i realized that usb is more cpu dependant and this slows it down
