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USB 2.0 and firewire
I did a test with my external hard disk. The disk has a USB 2.0 connector
and a firewire connector. I copied the same large file on my local hard disk to the same destination on my external hard disk. The first time I used the USB 2.0 option, the second time the firewire option. It turns out that firewire was quicker...significantly quicker.How can that be? The trasnfer was about 40 mbps, it was a bit less with USB 2.0...so my local hard disk was the bottleneck (firewere and USB 2.0 can both use 400 mbps at least). So if my local hard disk is the bottleneck, how can firwwiere than be significantly quicker than USB 2.0? (And my USB 2.0 was indeed on hi-speed cause the calculated speed is far above the 1.5 mbps USB 1.1 and the full speed 12 mbps from USB 2.0. So with about 38 mbps the transfer was on USB 2.0 hi-speed! So is firewire indeed faster? But how? USB 2.0 runs at a max of 580 mbps and firewire at 400 mbps. How can firewire then win this test? Thanks. |
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"Augustus" wrote in message ... I did a test with my external hard disk. The disk has a USB 2.0 connector and a firewire connector. I copied the same large file on my local hard disk to the same destination on my external hard disk. The first time I used the USB 2.0 option, the second time the firewire option. It turns out that firewire was quicker...significantly quicker.How can that be? USB will never be faster than FireWire... It's like comparing IDE to SCSI. The theoretical transfer rates might be close, but the protocol efficiency and CPU overhead aren't even close. Personally, I'd suggest using Firewire for anything where speed may be an issue (anything but mouse/keyboard basically) |
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