[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who gives a flip how fast the hard drive is on a laptop?
Um, how about everybody? The incremental indexing tasks which are being inflicted on everybody rattle the disks quite a bit (OS X Spotlight, Google toolbar, Microsoft Longhorn).
A cheap USB drive will make *lots* of situations nicer. The world is *not* a bunch of sysadmins lamenting about how long it takes to push 2 Tb of data through their USB Bacula system.
At what point did I say that USB wasn't fast enough? And how is a cheap external USB drive any more or less convenient than a cheap external Firewire drive?
A dedicated 480Mb channel is just fine, TYVM. There are other considerations, however. Firewire just seems to be more reliable; it has little to do with price and everything to do with what it was originally used for (drives and video(Firewire) rather than keyboards and mice(USB)) and what profiles existed. Firewire also can do peer transfers without host CPU intervention; USB requires that data come up to the main USB controller, get queued, and get retransmitted back down the tree to do a device to device transfer. This becomes an issue if other devices need attention (although why you would put multiple high-speed devices on the same USB 2.0 tree given the profusion of USB ports on modern computers is beyond me) or your CPU is under load.
You might want to do a little more research about the differences between the technologies.
We're not trying to convert you or make you change your mind; if it works for you, great. Most of us are simply sharing the benefit or our (sometimes painfully earned) personal experience.
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