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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 394896"><p>Wow! That's amazing! The speed diff is huge. I know I sent her last night some benchmark links to articles from Bare Feats testing HD read/write speeds, FW800 vs. FW400 vs. USB 2.0.</p><p></p><p>Theoretically USB 2.0 is supposed to be a little bit faster than FW400 (when I saw that, I was a bit worried I hadn't given her the right info!) but the tests proved wrong. </p><p></p><p>[Off Topic]</p><p>I might post in another thread about making an external HD the source for her iTunes music, how to do it, etc. I know that iTunes first looks in your user's <em>Music</em> folder for the music but she'll want to store them on an external, that I know. I might suggest she partitions her external (if she gets one like mine, a 500GB) in two partitions, one that would hold her music, one for her backups. But this is off topic for now and will keep these questions for another thread. [/Off Topic]</p><p></p><p>I will give her the link to this thread (and the one I will post later on) so she can have a look. Thanks all! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 394896"] Wow! That's amazing! The speed diff is huge. I know I sent her last night some benchmark links to articles from Bare Feats testing HD read/write speeds, FW800 vs. FW400 vs. USB 2.0. Theoretically USB 2.0 is supposed to be a little bit faster than FW400 (when I saw that, I was a bit worried I hadn't given her the right info!) but the tests proved wrong. [Off Topic] I might post in another thread about making an external HD the source for her iTunes music, how to do it, etc. I know that iTunes first looks in your user's [I]Music[/I] folder for the music but she'll want to store them on an external, that I know. I might suggest she partitions her external (if she gets one like mine, a 500GB) in two partitions, one that would hold her music, one for her backups. But this is off topic for now and will keep these questions for another thread. [/Off Topic] I will give her the link to this thread (and the one I will post later on) so she can have a look. Thanks all! :) [/QUOTE]
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