Is a firewire drive faster than a Rgular AT 100 ??

[dvdman3]

I heard Rgular is still faster... ideas ?

 

[Zlash]

Can't really compare because your not gonna have an internal firewire drive.

 

[Gunbuster]

Firewires top speed is 400Mbps

400 mega *bits* is only 50 mega bytes a second

 

[SocrPlyr]

the interface is actually slower as mentioned... but in reality you would see a very small performance difference between the two... but in the case stick w/ ide and out of the case go w/ firewire...

my opinion

Josh

 

[Eug]

ATA100 max is 100 MB/s and probably a little lower. Firewire theoretically maxes at 50, but the fastest real life speeds are <35 MB/s. And that's with the Oxford 911 chipset - others are much slower. No drives hit 100 MB/s, but many go over 35 MB/s.

As for internal Firewire, I have one internal Firewire port, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to use it because the drive is IDE anyway, and you have to use a US$60 Firewire-IDE bridge board. OTOH, if you've already filled up the IDE controller and have an extra internal Firewire port, Firewire might make sense.

Firewire is way better than both SCSI and USB though for external drives.

 

[rockhard]

<< Firewire is way better than both SCSI >>


Even if you have a SCSI 3 LVD controller that supports external LVD devices?

 

[ChrisIsBored]

<< Firewire is way better than SCSI for external drives. >>



Huh??? What nonsense is this? How so?

 

[Pariah]

External SCSI160 is definitely faster than firewire unless you are using a very old SCSI drive. USB2 is pretty comparable to firewire as well.

 

[rockhard]

Heh, the noise my Maxtor Atlas III's make when doing theyre stuff makes me think of getting a box for them and cabling them through the wall into another room
Then again it be easier to pop the whole rig in another room and just get an external SCSI burner routed into my room with all the other cable mullarky

 

[ChrisIsBored]

<< Heh, the noise my Maxtor Atlas III's make when doing theyre stuff makes me think of getting a box for them and cabling them through the wall into another room

<<

Heh... you think your Atlas is loud... you should hear my Seagate Cheetah X15...