Real world USB2 v. Firewire speed test

[hal]

I just got another super ebay deal in the mail - a 250GB Lacie USB2/FW pocket drive - the newer Hecht model. Nice little drive. Only $50 w/ 2 year warranty (gawd I love ebay)

I wiped the drive clean to the standard mac format and threw 5 avi files totaling about 900mb. USB2 finished in just about 60 seconds. FW moved the same files in about 28 seconds. Twice as fast in my very non scientific test.

I know it's old news,. but there it is just the same...

[jdc]

$50? nice.

yeah, look at these tests

http://www.barefeats.com/rosa06.html

[freeradical]

I suspect that even Firewire 400 would have put USB2 to shame.

[dk62]

From what I remember, that is at least partially dependent on quality of USB implementation, and the results may be different on Windows.

[RAMd®d]

I suspect that even Firewire 400 would have put USB2 to shame.

Was that LaCie drive using FW800?

[Panopticon]

I believe he got the Little Disk http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10978

FW400/USB2; 5400/8MB cache

steal @ $50 !

[hal]

Yes - that's the one

[qdog]

I've been told that USB2 is faster on a PC than a Mac. Has anyone ever done a PC USB2 vs Mac firewire test.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

USB2 is pretty durn fast on a PC.