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bassmutant · 20th September 2006, 02:13 AM

Well, those numbers are nice, but usb 2.0 usually sucks for me compared to fw400, and I have 2 external drives, that have both connectors on them. I tried the usb2.0 route first, as my macbook pro has only one firewire 400 port, and am chaining the drives behind my interface. Most the folks I've talked to have experienced the same as me. USB2.0 is fast for small files, but it's continuous throughput doesn't perform as well. maybe it's just the mac's though. I can't give you any hard numbers, I'd have to find a stopwatch and time some 2gb file transfers, but I'll see about doing that with side by side comparisions on my 200gb 7200rpm 8mb WD external with both the USB 2.0 and the FW400.

20th September 2006, 02:13 AM	#3
bassmutant Gear Head Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Washington State, USA Posts: 44	Well, those numbers are nice, but usb 2.0 usually sucks for me compared to fw400, and I have 2 external drives, that have both connectors on them. I tried the usb2.0 route first, as my macbook pro has only one firewire 400 port, and am chaining the drives behind my interface. Most the folks I've talked to have experienced the same as me. USB2.0 is fast for small files, but it's continuous throughput doesn't perform as well. maybe it's just the mac's though. I can't give you any hard numbers, I'd have to find a stopwatch and time some 2gb file transfers, but I'll see about doing that with side by side comparisions on my 200gb 7200rpm 8mb WD external with both the USB 2.0 and the FW400.