cheaper than an ipod
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actually, both are theoretical speeds, but it's true that there is protocol overhead with USB as compared to firewire which writes directly through the bus. firewire is not independant of the processor at all, i think you're confusing bus and processor. regardless, in either case you also have to consider the device.
that'd be great except for the transfer speed of the ipod itself which doesn't get above 5mb/s (and often hovers around 2) whereas the originally mentioned device does 8mb/s.
it's also worth considering what platform you're on. mac hardware is build with direct tie-ins to the processor and bus for firewire and gives a much greater performance boost than PC hardware. it's not worth using USB2.0 on a mac. with Windows XP SP1, USB2.0 is faster than firewire for most uses in pc hardware.
actually that might be the problem, i think you're going off the pre-SP1 clocks.