USB vs Firewire Speeds
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this test is wrong in so many ways! in order to be correct, you have to use ONE SINGLE hard drive that has both usb and firewire... and use it with ONE SIGNLE computer only! and test only for copying FROM or TO a hard drive (READ and WRITE speed are different in almost everything).
"This was just a test for fun, not an official benchmark"
sorry but you cant really misinform people with wrong results then calling it "for fun". if it is for fun, keep it to yourself! thanks
2 years ago 22
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firewire is the best, fuck stupid usb
1 year ago 2
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@RCTPatriot75 they're really not. not in a real-world scenario. Every benchmark I've run on mine and my family's computers all place FireWire 400 above USB 2.0 in sequential & random reads and writes.
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Great Presentation
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Such a biased comparison lol. Read/Write are completely different, SSD/HDD are completely different. USB/Firewire are very similar in speed.
I regularly read-copy at 30 MB/s with USB2.0 with a cheap external 500gb HDD. 6 minutes for 200mb is absurd. As a matter of fact I just read-copied my 20.7gb World of Warcraft folder in 9 minutes.
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Yeah the difference is huge. USB 2 takes for even when load in 10GB+ onto my ext drive, And I'm still using FW400 and it does everything so much better.
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The problem is the memory chip performance, may be..
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I've moved files (the same ones, from the same drive, to the same computer) using USB 2.0, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and eSATA. eSATA is the winner, with around 100mb/s, FireWire runs at around 80mb/s for me. 400 around 50mb/s and USB 2.0 around 30mb/s. I find USB is much slower when moving a lot of smaller files than FW or eSATA is, but it's not THAT bad for big files. It drops to around 10mb/s with a bunch of small files. FW and eSATA don't seem to drop all that much. At least in my testing.
TalesOfWar 1 year ago
@TalesOfWar That sounds about right!
sdschramm 1 year ago
The transfer rates between firewire and 2.0 are basically identical.
RCTPatriot75 1 year ago
@RCTPatriot75 But their throughput and efficiency aren't.
sdschramm 1 year ago
well firewire is better if you ask me but c'mon thei difference it is not like one 6 secs and the other 6 min,except if you used usb1 not 2.It is a fact though firewire is faster than usb
w1o5w6 1 year ago
@w1o5w6 USB 1.1
sdschramm 1 year ago