Hi Harondel,
On Sunday 14 January 2007 19:52, Harondel J. Sibble inscribed thus:
> 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.
I will second that. Rock solid, and the transfer rate doesn't leap
all over the place either like USB does!
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Best regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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