ok...what the heck?

massahwahl

massahwahl

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So I got my new hard drive (Iomega Minimax 500) formatted and ready to go. Its plugged in via firewire and went to transfer a movie to it and noticed it said it was going to take 25 minutes. I waited to see if it would change and sure enough, it stayed constant with the speed. So out of curiosity, I sent the same movie to my 80 gig hdd which is plugged in USB 2.0 and finished in about 3 minutes! How is the fireport slower than usb? There is a switch on the back of the Iomega that says either auto or 1394a. It is on the 1392a switch right now and also there is a setting to control the fan which is set to A-H but i can flip them down to M-L. whats up with this?
 
How large was the movie file?

As I said in another thread, it depends which version of Firewire you have. The two most common types are 400/800.
 
Ok I installed it using USB and it sped up. Switched the HDD to auto dont know what the switch does.

UPDATE** Ok figured out how the switch worked. USB- wrote to the disk at 18.5 Mb/s, using firewire it wrote at 20.7. Guess I just wasnt being patient enough or something
 
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ukulele_ninja said:
Ok I installed it using USB and it sped up. Switched the HDD to auto dont know what the switch does.

UPDATE** Ok figured out how the switch worked. USB- wrote to the disk at 18.5 Mb/s, using firewire it wrote at 20.7. Guess I just wasnt being patient enough or something
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It sounds like you have FireWire 400, which is the more common type. Even though USB transfers at 480Mbps, FireWire is more stable when it comes to speeds.
 
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