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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 851651" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Firstly, which Mac do you own? If it has a Firewire 800 Port then for sure go with a Firewire 800 case.</p><p></p><p>Never go by the basic numbers whatever you do. Firewire 400 is faster with sustained transfer of a lot of files over USB 2.0 even though the rating implies 480Mbps Vs 400Mbps. In real use however it never gets that fast doing sustained transfer at all. Firewire is much better at sustained transfer rate.</p><p></p><p>Firewire 800 is 2x faster than Firewire 400. It will fly and especially with large and many files.</p><p></p><p>I have the 1GB SATA version of your 1.5GB Seagate in a enclosure with USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and even FW400 flies compared to USB 2.0 with the large files I copy over to it for backup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 851651, member: 8287"] Firstly, which Mac do you own? If it has a Firewire 800 Port then for sure go with a Firewire 800 case. Never go by the basic numbers whatever you do. Firewire 400 is faster with sustained transfer of a lot of files over USB 2.0 even though the rating implies 480Mbps Vs 400Mbps. In real use however it never gets that fast doing sustained transfer at all. Firewire is much better at sustained transfer rate. Firewire 800 is 2x faster than Firewire 400. It will fly and especially with large and many files. I have the 1GB SATA version of your 1.5GB Seagate in a enclosure with USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and even FW400 flies compared to USB 2.0 with the large files I copy over to it for backup. [/QUOTE]
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