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i need one for work (and home). talking about usb 2.0 i guess. gonna use it as an archive at work...
anyone hear of la cie?
anyone hear of la cie?
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The Windows PC implementation of USB 2.0 puts the Mac to shame. Today we tested the same USB 2.0 drive/enclosure on a Windows PC (3GHz Pentium 4) with built-in USB 2.0 on the motherboard, similar to Apple's approach. We measured 33MB/s READ and 27MB/s WRITE
Oh man, I hear that! I have a friend who only had USB1 and they'd hook up my drive and just leave it overnight to get 1Gb off it, they invested in a USB2 card just to speed up things with my lil HD.Sxotty said:Now if you use a USB 1 connection well I pity you
Sxotty said:USB2 is rated at 60mb/s I am sorry to tell you but there is not 2.5" hdd that can come anywhere near to saturating that.
Now if you are using the ati chipset with their poor usb throughput you might notice a slow down, but the usb interface is definitely not the weak link on a 2.5" hdd.
If you put a raptor in a 3.5" enclosure you may notice something.
I have an enclosure btw that has firewire and usb2 and there is no difference whasoever in transfer speed.
http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html
2.5" hdd's are slow enough that the above numbers are plenty high.
Now if you use a USB 1 connection well I pity you
YeuEmMaiMai said:Overhead on USB 2.0 is greater than that of of IEEE Firewire...and that's where the advantage come in at
http://www.usb-ware.com/firewire-vs-usb.htm
Ty said:As far as I know, it really shouldn't make much of a difference in the real world (other than lower CPU usage). That is, through put should be very similar.
YeuEmMaiMai said:Firewire 400 is at a minimum 16% faster than US 2.0 There is no competition between Firewire 800 and USB 2.0 when it comes to HDD based external storage......
http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html <- posted for firewire 800 results
http://www.digit-life.com/articles/usb20vsfirewire/
Sxotty said:Do you own a mac? Why are you posting graphs with macs then? It says in the paragraph below "Windows pcs put macs to shame"
This is the short of it like I said before.
If you use a 2.5" hdd it doesn't matter at all. Therefore USB2 wins as most computers have it on the front.
If you are using a decent 3.5" hdd as YeuEmMaiMai is then there is an argument for firewire, but you run into compatibility issues i.e. does the computer you are hooking up to have usb2? So you get a combo enclosure that has both.
P.S. what is your name? (it reminds me of vietnamese for some reason)
YeuEmMaiMai said:I posted the mac results for firewire 800 results just as i indicated in the revious post. The newer drives can easily saturate the Firewire 400 bus and can give the 800 bus a good workout. these same High performacne drives can easily get chocked .....
Ty said:What HDDs can choke a FW800 or USB2.0 bus?
Believe me, I'm a fan of FW myself (my external is hooked up via FW) but I thought that HDDs don't even come close to saturating either of them.