[X4U] Duplicating?

[Jens Selvig]

My experience is that USB 2.0 is slower than Firewire 400 when large  
amounts of data are being transferred.

Jens


On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

>
> On 18-Dec-08, at 2:57 AM, John Baltutis wrote:
>
>> On 12/17/08, Mark Des Cotes <lists at marksmandesign.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> I know I can't boot from a USB2 external drive. If I make a clone of
>>> my HD to the USB2 external drive using CCC, could I, if the need  
>>> ever
>>> arises, take the drive out of it's enclosure put it in a FireWire
>>> enclosure and boot from it? Or do I have to make the clone directly
>>> to a FW drive?
>>
>> Why go through all of that when you can just pop the HD into a FW  
>> enclosure and
>> leave it there. USB is significantly slower than FireWire.
>
> I have a iMac G5 and it only has FW 400 so USB2 is faster (at least  
> I think it is). I already have a USB2 Dual enclosure with a RAID1  
> setup. The drive is partitioned into two parts the first of which  
> I've cloned my HD to. I'm just curious if the cloned HD would boot  
> my iMac G5 if I removed the drive from the USB2 enclosure and put it  
> in a FW enclosure. It's only for a worst case scenario. Should my HD  
> ever fail I can run down to my local computer store and purchase a  
> FW enclosure for the drive.

Jens Selvig
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