[plug] USB2 or FW

[Brad Campbell]

hooker at iinet.net.au wrote:

>>No such problems with FW.
>>I do get 20MB/s with USB2 and only 17MB/s with FW, but to my mind reliable
>>data transfers beat speed 
>>any day of the week.
> 
> 
> Thanks Brad, very helpful! Interesting that you found USB2 slower than FW. I'd
> heard exactly the opposite under Windoze. I agree about reliability though - 90%
> speed and 100% right wins every time.

Nope, I said USB2 faster than FW, but far less reliable.

I have a couple of external enclosures with both FW and USB2 and I'll take FW any day of the week.

Cheers,
Brad