On 13 Jan 2007 at 12:16, Marc Sims wrote: > The advantages are that its fast, can transfer massive amounts of > data and any type multimedia data and is just as popular a USB but > much faster. IEEE then released 1394A-2000 which the 2000 number
Yes, ostensibly on paper USB2.0 is faster than firewire 400, however in the real world, I personally find FW transfers faster and MUCH more reliable. Perfect example, I was copy approx 48gb of data from an external combo enclosure (usb2 and firewire), after 30 minutes, via usb2 connection it had only copied maybe 10-12gb and was showing 160 minutes until completion. I eventually cancelled it, hooked the enclosure up by FW and had the entire copy completed in around 60 minutes. I've seen this sort of behaviour across litterally dozens of varied machines. The USB transfer locked up the machine requiring a hard reboot twice, the firewire transfer went off with nary a hitch. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
