Has anyone had any luck/problems with firewire hard drives? Anything I should be aware of?
On 11/1/06, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:44:43PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm running my desktop computer completely off a USB hard drive with no > > problems. As long as you have a USB2.0 port and drive then the maximum > > transfer rate is 480MBPs. When you consider a standard PATA connection is > > only 133MBPs it's more than enough. Firewire connections are also faster > > then hard drives can throughput so you should have no problems with a > > firewire or USB2 HDD. > > > > Careful, you're mixing bits and bytes there. > > USB2 has a theoretical maximum of 480Mb/s (that's 480 mega bits per second) > PATA has a theoretical maximum of 133MB/s (that's 133 mega bytes per second) > > 480 (bits) / 8 (bits per byte) = 60 > > Therefore USB2 has a theoretical maximum throughput of 60MB/s (but it's > really nearer 55MB/s in > the real world) (compared with 133MB/s of PATA), per host adapter. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
