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Raccoon13
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_ 		3. February 2008 @ 23:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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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mrman
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_ 		4. February 2008 @ 00:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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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Raccoon13
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_ 		4. February 2008 @ 01:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
THANK you, i dident know that, ill stick with usb 2.0
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GrandpaBW
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_ 		4. February 2008 @ 09:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by mrman:

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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

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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RottenKid
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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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