[plug] USB2 or FW

hooker at iinet.net.au hooker at iinet.net.au
Wed Jun 30 15:24:04 WST 2004


Quoting Brad Campbell <brad at wasp.net.au>:
> 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.

Ooops - note to self ... read properly before replying :(

Hooker




More information about the plug mailing list