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Need advice on firewire or usb 2.0
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Name: joneswoods1
Date: December 21, 2003 at 10:04:34 Pacific
Subject: Need advice on firewire or usb 2.0OS: Media Center EditionCPU/Ram: Pentium 4 2.4 GHZ |
Comment: I need some adive i just bought an external sony dvd +- rw drive . it has a i.link firewire and usb 2.0 . I have usb right now but no firewire i was going to buy a pci firewire card but what should i choose Please Help me.
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Response Number 1
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Name: MrNiceGuy (by vng2k)
Date: December 21, 2003 at 11:18:55 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I prefer firewire because it transfer a little bit faster. Although USS at 480Mb/s and firewire only at 400Mb/s, but too much overhead and turnaround time that make firewire become a little bit faster.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Dick Johnson
Date: December 21, 2003 at 15:08:26 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Don't waste any money on firewire if you have USB 2.0. At least with USB the drive can be a bootable device. Firewire bootable??? The difference between the two will only show using a digital camcorder. USB 2.0 will work fine with any DVD Burner since they only run at 33mbps even in DMA mode.
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