On 3/7/03 11:21 am, "Simon Brown" wrote: > USB-2 is supposed to have the edge but in Real World use it's impossible to > see the diff.
Don't think you'll find that's right actually. The supposed speed of USB2 appears faster at 480MB/s (if I remember correctly) whereas firewire400 is 400Mb/s, however I think I remember seeing many reports that in side by side tests, firewire is faster. Something to do with the fact that USB1 & 2 need some kind of computer work when connecting whereas firewire doesn't. And as for firewire 800? Barefeats are reporting that a FW800 RAID is probably faster than internal Serial ATA RAID. Possibly the way forward, and could be a reason that Apple didn't put space for more than two drives in their new G5's. No reason to have internal drives if external are faster. > At 11:07 03/07/2003 +0100, Ashley Karyl wrote: >> My laptop has USB 2 but no firewire, however, I can purchase a 3 port non >> powered PCMCIA adaptor for �29.00. Does anybody know whether or not a >> firewire or USB 2 card reader will substantially speed up the time necessary >> to copy files from the card to hard disk? Ashley If you have an IBM microdrive adaptor, to fit in the PCMCIA slot, try that. I used to use a Firewire card reader (Lexar), however in earlier versions of OSX it was not supported so I started using my adaptor cards. They're fast, I know, cause I'm not a patient person and I wouldn't use them if they were slow. I can't believe you are still using USB1, I bought the Lexar when I bought a D30, I had to wait a few weeks, cause it had only just been released, but reports on USB1 transfer times were ridiculous, they'd have driven me mad if I had had to use one. Apparently a firewire reader is still faster than the adaptor cards, I've not tested it, I think Rob Galbraith has some results on his site, however the differences are not so great as to worry me. The difference from either to USB1 though is huge. Upgrade now, anything would be faster. Regards Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
