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Maxtor External Drive
I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes with
a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ? My workstation supports both fw & usb2 |
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"Will Dormann" wrote in message ... Rodrick Brown wrote: I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes with a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ? Is your period key broken? Do you always nit pick like a little bitch ? My workstation supports both fw & usb2 Firewire generally gives better performance than USB2. Why not try both and see which is faster for you. The reason I'm asking because I dont have the time to do testing myself. -WD |
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Rodrick Brown wrote:
I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes with a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ? Is your period key broken? My workstation supports both fw & usb2 Firewire generally gives better performance than USB2. Why not try both and see which is faster for you. -WD |
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The reason I'm asking because I dont have the time to do testing myself. Download this program and do the test in less than 10 minutes! DiskSpeed32 Home Page http://www.geocities.com/vgrinenko/DiskSpeed32/ Farouk Dindar |
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Rodrick Brown wrote in message .. . I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes with a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ? Firewire. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/s...393574,00.html You may not find that there is much difference in practice tho. My workstation supports both fw & usb2 The main downside with firewire is that you cant boot from the external drive. You may be able to do that with USB2 if the PC motherboard can do that. |
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"Rodrick Brown" wrote in message .. . | | "Will Dormann" wrote in message | ... | Rodrick Brown wrote: | I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes | with | a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and | firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ? | | Is your period key broken? | | Do you always nit pick like a little bitch ? | We just don't like high school drop outs. | | My workstation supports both fw & usb2 | | Firewire generally gives better performance than USB2. Why not try both | and see which is faster for you. | | | The reason I'm asking because I dont have the time to do testing myself. | Too dumb to run a five minute benchmark? |
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