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10.4: Reduce iTunes skipping on an external drive
Authored by: uchuugaka on Jul 07, '05 11:04:04PM

i've had it skip on the main drive!
but that is while using limewire or another p2p and downloading a large file.
the constant write to the drive disrupts the bandwidth to itunes.
real simple issue.
your firewire drive may have the same issue.
firewire itself (or any othere connector type) is not the only determinant of the maximum throughput of any device.
you must also take into account the HD's spin speed, seek time, and cache size. but if multiple operations are reading/writing to the same disk, you will have interrupts.
in this case, your FW HD, the FW bus may be running into a traffic jam on the main bus or even the main processor's cache.
ibooks and imacs have smaller caches than powerbooks and powermacs, and therefore will have this occur more.
but each speedbump model will potentially have mobo changes... so the implementation could look same but act different



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