Firewire Question

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  1. Raccoon13

    Raccoon13 Member

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    I have a old sony vaio desktop (windows xp) and i want a external drive i have one port that looks like firewire 400 the manual says its a i.link 6 pin s400 port (ieee 1394) i want a WD mybook that has a firewire 400. i believe that this will grant me faster conversion times does it ?
     
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    If you have usb 2.0 then it is faster then fire wire 400 because usb 2.0 operates at 480mb/s and FW400 is 400mb/sec

    Firewire 800 howwever would be faster then USB2.0
     
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    THANK you, i dident know that, ill stick with usb 2.0
     
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    That is still a debatable subject. For me, it seems that my external enclosure, with a Seagate SATA2 drive in it, is faster when connected via firewire (400) than when I connect it via USB 2.0.
     
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    NO ONE will ever see anything close to the estimated transfer speed, especially not when mechanical drives are involved.
     
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