Apple video applications still can't write to USB Drives as scratch drives. So the FW is important for that reason as well. On Apr 21, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Alex wrote: > However, FW is definitely better than USB2 for this type of > application, because USB is a host-based bus. Basically, although the > performance is similar, the computer has to work harder to transfer > large volumes of data over USB than over FW