One comment on FireWire for clarity.

High speed USB is rated at 480.

IEEE 1394A is rated up to 400.

IEEE 1394B is rated at ranges from 800 to 1.2G.

Certainly, high speed USB is great for data transfer. It gives the older 
firewire (IEEE 1394A) a run for the money. However, and when talking video 
transfers, IEEE 1394B (a newer version of firewire) is a better solution for 
the video camera to disk option.

I am still a strong supporter of USB for file transfers such as printer 
connections and thumb drives. This is just a personal opinion.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul A. Shippert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] USB vs. Firewire


> Greetings Peter & List--
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 6:34 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] USB vs. Firewire
>
>
>> The specs for USB 2 show a faster transfer rate (480Mbps) than Firewire
>> (400Mbps). However, I have read some comments that for an external hard
>> drive, the Firewire interface seems to give better performance. Has 
>> anyone
>> on this list had experience with both so as to make some comments 
>> regarding
>> the speed?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Peter
>> ----------------------------------
> -------------------end original------------------------
> While I've not yet tried utilizing the USB 2.0 interface to capture video, 
> experienced friends of mine have told me that, while the USB spec is 
> faster, it does not maintain that speed in a steady-state fashion. The 
> difference is much like SCSI vs. IDE. There are some fast IDE drives out 
> there, but their steady-state transfer, read, and write speeds are nowhere 
> close to what a similar speed rated SCSI drive can maintain. If you plan 
> to do video capture, in my opinion, the Firewire interface is the way to 
> go.
>
> HTH.
>
> Paul A. Shippert
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