[Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking

[Tethys]

Ian Baillie writes:

>OK, thanks for that. Out of interest, does an external IDE drive with a
>Firewire connection give greater transfer speeds than an IDE drive
>plugged straight into the IDE controller on the motherboard (i.e. on an
>x86 machine)?

No. Firewire gives 50KB/s, while modern IDE drives can handle 100MB/s or
more (in bursts, at least -- sustained numbers are likely to be a bit lower).

Tet

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