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> that mega bits or bytes anyway?) And unlike USB 2.0, you can actually > get close to the theoretical limit with firewire. From what I have read, > USB just has too much protocol overhead. True, but in the end that makes no difference whatsoever because most of these enclosures are using ATA100 or ATA133 drives, and the best you'll get out of them is 45 MB/s, and more likely around 37 MB/s. It's nice that they offer both Firewire and USB 2.0 connectors, though. Brian J. Conway bconway at alum.wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992
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