On Sep 13, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Matt Gregory wrote: > It's been a while since I looked at the USB vs. Firewire tests, but > if I > remember correctly Firewire wouldn't really be all that much faster > for > filling a 2 or 4GB Nano. The bottleneck with the iPod shuffle wasn't the connection bandwidth (USB) at all. It was way under the published spec, apparently from all the I/O associated with iTunes DB information. Filling my shuffle via USB2 is slooooooowww.