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    USB 2.0 vs Firewire 400 External Hard Drive

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

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    USB is like single lane road, you get good speed, but only in one direction at a time. Firewire is more like a freeway, you can have multiple data streams going both ways as fast as they can.

     

    And as a bonus you can link FW gear together and they can transfer data directly, without taxing the computer itself.

     

    But like you said, there are excellent deals on USB 2.0 drives, and they're not totally useless - I use USB drives for archiving and FW drives when the data needs to be accessed like a regular drive.

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