begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:29:58PM -0700: > > USB is fine for keyboards and mice (unless, I suppose, you're a twitch > > gamer). For anything involving moving around lots of data, use a system > > designed to, well, move around data. > > Many (most?) people want convenience more than data rate.
Until they don't get the data rate they're used to. Me? I want consistent behavior. :) > Who gives a flip how fast the hard drive is on a laptop? I care more about that than about the processor. :-/ > 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. I wasn't thinking about sysadmins. I'm thinking about parallel drives. They sounded so useful. So convenient. And yet nearly everyone I knew who got one *loathed* it; they want the quick-connect features that lets the drive be ubiquituous, but they soon got frusted with the lack of performance. Firewire is *just* *as* *convenient* as USB, connection-wise. If not moreso... (I find that I almost always first try to plug in a USB connector the wrong way round. Why, I don't know.) -Stewart -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
