<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Excuse me? USB2 is plenty fast for mass storage. I'm a long-time Mac fan, but I've had lots of crashes or problems with my Macs refusing to recognize a Firewire drive, even if another Mac does so. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>HOWEVER...one question I have: will the drive in a USB 2.0 case be BOOTABLE in case of an emergency? I know that Firewire is.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 21, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Ben Chong wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Speedwise, firewire is probably faster. The USB protocol is not made for fast mass storage transactions.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Also, if you are looking at 2.5" USB drives, there is the consideration of power. In my 1.33GHz and 1.2GHz 12" iBooks, the USB ports are not made equal. Only one port (one next to the firewire connector) is really capable of powering a 2.5" USB hard drive. The firewire port has no trouble at all driving firewire-capable 2.5" drives.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>