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Blue Apricot
I just bought a brand new computer from Dell with an IEEE 1394 adapter.
Now I want to buy a 500GB External Hard Drive in an enclosure.
Can I benefit by using the firewire port instead of the USB port to
connect? I am getting a lot of conflicting information.
Here are things I have been told:
1. There is no benefit to using Firewire over USB because XP only
transfers 200 MB per second, whether the Firewire is 400 or the newer
800
2. My adapter cannot be the newer kind because they do not make them
for PCs (Even though I just bought my PC, it does not say whether the
adapter is 1394A, or 1394B) only Macs have the fast ones
Ideally, I would like to have this "external hard drive" transfer as
fast as possible, but there is no point in paying moer $$ for a
"better" enclosure with support for new (or even old) Firewire if it
will be no better/faster on a PC running XP using USB.
Thanks for any comments,
Blue Apricot
Now I want to buy a 500GB External Hard Drive in an enclosure.
Can I benefit by using the firewire port instead of the USB port to
connect? I am getting a lot of conflicting information.
Here are things I have been told:
1. There is no benefit to using Firewire over USB because XP only
transfers 200 MB per second, whether the Firewire is 400 or the newer
800
2. My adapter cannot be the newer kind because they do not make them
for PCs (Even though I just bought my PC, it does not say whether the
adapter is 1394A, or 1394B) only Macs have the fast ones
Ideally, I would like to have this "external hard drive" transfer as
fast as possible, but there is no point in paying moer $$ for a
"better" enclosure with support for new (or even old) Firewire if it
will be no better/faster on a PC running XP using USB.
Thanks for any comments,
Blue Apricot