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Re: Will USB 3 peripherals - hal - 03-04-2017
USB2 on the 2010 macbook was much faster than anything that preceded it. I've seen transfers up to 40mb/s - right up there with the fastest FW400.
Re: Will USB 3 peripherals - Filliam H. Muffman - 03-04-2017
FW400 and USB 2.0 from 2004, FW400 read speed: 38 MBps
USB 2.0 on a Mac compatible USB 3.0 card with Mac drivers (2010), USB 2.0 read speed: 38 MBps
After 6 years USB 2.0 reached about 90% of the best results for FW400 on a Mac. It will be lots slower than USB 3.0, but new hardware running over USB 2.0 with a recent version of OS X can be surprisingly fast.