Since a firewire hard drive is just an IDE hard drive with an added chipset, is it any faster or better than just using an IDE hard drive?
It depends on the relative merits of your IDE interface vs. your firewire interface + firewire to IDE bridge. In a perfect world, they'd give the same performance or slightly less on the firewire side because there must be some latency in the bridge.
But you're starting at the same place--with an IDE drive which delivers a certain level of real world performance in terms of sustained reads and writes.
Jeff Walther
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