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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 394892" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>trpnmonkey41 is very correct. FW400 will be just fine for what your friend wants to do. 800 is better if you are constantly transferring really large files back and forth, but 400 is fine for everything else. Now if you were asking USB 2.0, I would cringe a bit as on paper it looks fast, but try a sustained file transfer and it falls on it's face. FW400 is just fine.</p><p></p><p>Have a close friend who at the time had a Dual 2.0Ghz G5 tower with LaCie Triple interface external. He zipped up his entire music collection. The Zip was a few gigs. We did a file transfer from the Internal SATA to the External. With USB 2.0 it took 10 Minutes Plus, with FW400 is was 5 minutes and with FW800 it was around 3 minutes. I think with the FW800 we were also running into the speed (RPM) of the Hard Drive getting in the way.</p><p></p><p>I also came home and repeated the test with at the time my Mac Mini G4. No FW800 of course but I got the same times as I did at my friends place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 394892, member: 8287"] trpnmonkey41 is very correct. FW400 will be just fine for what your friend wants to do. 800 is better if you are constantly transferring really large files back and forth, but 400 is fine for everything else. Now if you were asking USB 2.0, I would cringe a bit as on paper it looks fast, but try a sustained file transfer and it falls on it's face. FW400 is just fine. Have a close friend who at the time had a Dual 2.0Ghz G5 tower with LaCie Triple interface external. He zipped up his entire music collection. The Zip was a few gigs. We did a file transfer from the Internal SATA to the External. With USB 2.0 it took 10 Minutes Plus, with FW400 is was 5 minutes and with FW800 it was around 3 minutes. I think with the FW800 we were also running into the speed (RPM) of the Hard Drive getting in the way. I also came home and repeated the test with at the time my Mac Mini G4. No FW800 of course but I got the same times as I did at my friends place. [/QUOTE]
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