| 1394a: 393.216 Mbit/s half-duplex
USB 2.0: 480 Mbit/s (unfortunatly complete BS unless you are using a standalone USB 2.0 add-on card.)
From Wiki:
Typical USB PC-hosts rarely exceed sustained transfers of 280 Mbit/s, with 240 Mbit/s being more typical. This is likely due to USB's reliance on the host-processor to manage low-level USB protocol, whereas FireWire delegates the same tasks to the interface hardware.
1394b: 786.432 Mbit/s full-duplex
1394a may be slower theoretically, but in practice, I think it walks all over USB 2.0. 1394b smokes them both. I'm just afriad of going eSATA, because I don't know much about it. I'm really just trying to decide if I should pay the premium to have the firewire present so I don't have to fall all the way back to USB 2.0 if the eSATA is buggy.
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Last edited by Azriel : 15th May, 2008 at 08:12 PM.
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