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    FireWire vs. USB 2.0 Hard Drive Performance Comparison
    Read and write tests to the same IDE hard drive connected using FireWire and then Hi-Speed USB 2.0 show:

    Read Test:

    5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 33% faster than USB 2.0
    160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 70% faster than USB 2.0
    Write Test:

    5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 16% faster than USB 2.0
    160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 48% faster than USB 2.0

    and this with "old" firewire 400.

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    • if you work with video. USB sucks ass. (not a pretty ass, just in case you thought so)akrok
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