One more example of Tom, being...Tom. It also depends on the quality of the controller, you can get cheap esata controllers that are slower, or good ones that blaze. Has nothing to do with apple or pc. Different interfaces for different jobs. Note that Apple and PC's both use USB, SATA..FW.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:26 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Paul Meyer wrote: > >> How can FireWire be superior to eSata? >> I thought eSata made your external essentially >> the same as one installed inside the case. >> > > SATA, eSATA, PATA, & USB all depend on the constant attention of the CPU > for their operation. With SCSI and FireWire the CPU issues a command and it > is carried out without further intervention by the CPU. Just one more > example of the Apple way vs the PC way. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
