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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 282834" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Don't go by numbers when compairing USB2 and Firewire 400. FW in real use is much faster. I have done speed tests over and over on many systems and Firewire was always way faster. USB2 has a lot of overhead and slows way down on sustained transfers of large files. On my friends Dual G5 we made a large archive of all his music. With USB 2 it took 10 minutes to transfer to the HDD and with FW 400 it was 5 minutes. I was shocked at the difference so came home and tried it on all my systems here and got the basic same results. Used a Tripple interface drive at my friends house and a 160GB WD USB2/FW400 drive here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 282834, member: 8287"] Don't go by numbers when compairing USB2 and Firewire 400. FW in real use is much faster. I have done speed tests over and over on many systems and Firewire was always way faster. USB2 has a lot of overhead and slows way down on sustained transfers of large files. On my friends Dual G5 we made a large archive of all his music. With USB 2 it took 10 minutes to transfer to the HDD and with FW 400 it was 5 minutes. I was shocked at the difference so came home and tried it on all my systems here and got the basic same results. Used a Tripple interface drive at my friends house and a 160GB WD USB2/FW400 drive here. [/QUOTE]
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