I agree.
Firewire is the better system but it has less uptake and chipsets can be problematic. You will rarely get a problem (nowadays) with USB2 HDDs but the same cannot be said necessarily for Firewire.
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Use what works for you. Some people are satisfied with USB2 and some with Firewire. But you can always switch between the two.
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Are the above assumptions agreed? What is left out?
As an exaggerated parallel, I wouldn't expect a 1.44MB floppy drive to operate any faster on a 3GHz P4 than it did on an old 486. -
but at 16x write (22MB/s) or sustained read it is looking like a hard drive.
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Agreed.
At high burn speeds, Firewire would perform better than USB2 (assuming you don't have a chipset compatibility problem).
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Agreed.
The reason I posted my Benchmark tests is because I hate misinformation. They advertize that USB 2.0 is faster than Firewire, but in the real world it's the other way around. In my tests, Firwire is about 80% faster using the same HDD in the same enclosure, tested on the same Laptop.
I don't use external buners, so I can't say if it would make a difference.I stand up next a mountain and chop it down with the ledge of my hand........ I'm a Voodoo child.... Jimi Hendrix,
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