Maxtor External Drive

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I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes with
a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and
firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ?

My workstation supports both fw & usb2
 
Will Dormann said:
Is your period key broken?
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Do you always nit pick like a little bitch ?
Firewire generally gives better performance than USB2. Why not try both
and see which is faster for you.
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The reason I'm asking because I dont have the time to do testing myself.
 
Rodrick said:
I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes with
a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and
firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ?
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Is your period key broken?
My workstation supports both fw & usb2
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Firewire generally gives better performance than USB2. Why not try both
and see which is faster for you.

-WD
 
I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes
with a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and
firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ?
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Firewire.
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/jump/0,24331,3393574,00.html

You may not find that there is much difference in practice tho.
My workstation supports both fw & usb2
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The main downside with firewire is that you cant boot from the external drive.

You may be able to do that with USB2 if the PC motherboard can do that.
 
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| | > Rodrick Brown wrote:
| > > I have a Maxtor external drive 160Gb with 8mb of cache 7200RPM it comes
| with
| > > a usb2 and firewire interface from what I read usb2 can do 480mb and
| > > firewire is 400mb anyone know which one gives overall best performace ?
| >
| > Is your period key broken?
|
| Do you always nit pick like a little bitch ?
|
We just don't like high school drop outs.
| >
| > > My workstation supports both fw & usb2
| >
| > Firewire generally gives better performance than USB2. Why not try both
| > and see which is faster for you.
| >
|
| The reason I'm asking because I dont have the time to do testing myself.
|
Too dumb to run a five minute benchmark?
 
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