USB vs. FireWire for external hard drives
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Mar 15, 20263443 viewsConfidence Score0%
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For external hard drives in this question, I'm referring to traditional HDDs; the kind with spinning metal inside of them (no RAM or flash-based super-high-performance hardware): Is there a significant speed difference between USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 for external HDDs? And, while we're here, eSATA…
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Traditional hard drives (7200 RPM) are much faster than the USB standard allows for. You can prove it by taking a decent hard drive and plugging it in natively, and testing it, and then testing it in a USB caddy. Since eSATA and Firewire (400/800) a…
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