I can have both FireWire and USB 2.0. Which would be fastest?
2007-02-09 13:19:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Firewire is faster than USB 2.0.
What is this going to be used for?
One cool thing I've came across is a housing that holds and powers an internal SATA drive outside, like an external hard drive. You also need a PCI type SATA interface so the SATA drive can connect to an internal motherboard SATA port. This will give you full internal SATA HD transfer speeds.
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2007-02-09 13:33:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rotation speed indicates how fast the drive spins, however, this speed is based on the rotation on the most interior of the disc. It also does indicate a slightly higher read rate, though I would recommend a look at the internal cache of the drive. That will give a better idea at to the throughput of each drive. As for connectivity, I prefer USB, mostly because of portability. Most older systems (say ~ '97 and up) have USB 2.0 connections, if you are looking at transfering data between multiple systems.
2007-02-09 21:32:22 · answer #2 · answered by Jerry Lee C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't really depend on the revolutions per minute. the main thing is the data transfer speed. Like Venom said, for external devices, FireWire has higher data transfer rate than USB.
2007-02-09 21:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by cld 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The external will be faster, especially if you use FireWire 800.
2007-02-09 21:26:38 · answer #4 · answered by Venom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most definately the 7200 WITH firewire. will ripppppp
2007-02-09 21:32:55 · answer #5 · answered by gas_indycar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋