[plug] USB2 or FW

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 15:24, hooker at iinet.net.au wrote:
> 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.
> 

Now check out this from http://www.linux1394.org/ :


"Linux supports 1394b a.k.a. FireWire800
Some months ago our project leader Ben Collins received a 1394b card and
added core ieee1394/ohci1394 support for it, and has been successfully
using it with a 1394b hard drive and the sbp2 module. More recently, a
user has been using an awesome new 4-channel 1394b card from Inidigita
with software RAID5 and reports good performance."


I'm not a fixated graphics card mad, monitor refresh rate, hand-eye
super cordinated freak but let me just say W00t!


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