RE: HD - USB / Firewire

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

USB1.x is 12mbits/sec,
Firewire is 400mbits/sec,
USB2.0 is 480mbits/sec,
Firewire 800 is 800mbits/sec.

All theoretical or "on paper" speeds - for real world throughput
of Firewire
divide by two and on USB divide by 3 or 4 (well, that's the way it works
out
on the Macs that I've tried which are much quicker than throughput on
Windows or Linux).

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Chris Hunter
> Sent: 15 April 2006 18:10
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HD - USB / Firewire
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> Thanks - that's roughly what I had in mind - IIRC it (USB)
> used to be ten-times slower ...
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> Chris
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> On 15 Apr 2006, at 17:58, Phil Harris wrote:
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> > USB2 is about half the speed of firewire in "the real
world"...
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> > Phil
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> > > Behalf Of Chris Hunter
> > > Sent: 15 April 2006 11:54
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] HD - USB / Firewire
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> > > 'am I right in assuming that USB-2 has more-or less made
Firewire
> > > irrelevant when it comes to HDDs ... ie: speed-wise
> there' not much
> > > to choose now, and for most HA purposes USB-2 'drives
> would be quite
> > > good enough ... ???
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> > > questions, questions !
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> > > Chris
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