Vista firewire speed issue

[Beemer Biker]

I started a drag and drop of just over 200gb of movies from a 250gb PATA in
an external firewire box to a new 500gb SATA running at 3ghz.

Estimated duration of transfer was 2 hours, 20 minutes and that seems to be
fairly accurate.

That comes down to, if I do my math correct, about 27mbytes per second.
1394a is 400mbytes (bytes, not bits right??) and 1394b is 800mbytes. I
have only 1gb of memory and have more on order. That figure of 27mbytes
seems to slow.

Anyway, I see where there are some 1394b PCI-e 1X adapters available. I
recall that XP did not use that 800 speed and actually dropped to 100 for
"network firewire".

Was wondering about Vista and 1394b? Anyone using any of those 800mb
devices?



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[Guest]

1394a is 400mbytes (bytes, not bits right??) and 1394b is 800mbytes. I

No, I'm afraid it's bits.
27MB/s for an external Firewire drive is not great, but it's about what I
usually get with XP.
eSATA should do quite a bit better, but you don't see many of those yet.

dah