whoopy2k opened this issue on Jul 05, 2005 ยท 30 posts
svdl posted Tue, 05 July 2005 at 5:44 PM
The theoretical maximum speed of USB2.0 is slightly higher than the maximum of standard FireWire (480 Mbit/s vs 400 Mbit/s) I have used an external hard disk both over USB2.0 and over FireWire (same drive, same PC). FireWire was slightly faster, mainly in access time, throughput was about the same. I guess this had to do with the fact that I also used an USB mouse and keyboard on that PC, and it didn't have separate hubs. When I used this same drive as an internal one, its speed was marginally higher - again, the average access time was somewhat better, while the throughput was exactly the same. No reason not to install your whole Poser kaboodle on that external drive.
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