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Authored by: dintal on Feb 08, '04 01:15:55AM

well, that's just plain not true.

ATA drives, whether 3.5" or 2.5", 4200 or 5400 or 7200 are at most ATA 133 which stands for the transfer speed. an ATA 66 drive is capable of push 66Mb/s while an ATA 100 drive is capable of 100Mb/s. On the other had FireWire 400 is capable of 400Mb/s transfer rate. FireWire 800 is capable of double the rate.



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Authored by: eggman on Mar 15, '04 08:11:34PM

I think "skeptical" might have forgotten that ATA XX speed ratings stand for XX MB/s...notice the CAPITAL B meaning byte whereas the lower case stands for bit (which is used for firewire speeds)...this would make 66MB/s roughly (ok, exactly) 8x faster than 66Mb/s etc...i'll leave the rest of the math to you, but personally, i'd take 100MB/s over 400Mb/s



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