[iBook] external drive: USB vs. firewire

[Roger Harris]

Yes, the USB 2 has good speeds but even last years iBooks do not have  
USB 2. And if she were to get a new USB 2 burner it would not fast on  
an older iBook; it would be painfully slow.

There is a client's USB 2 CD burner sitting on my floor right now; he  
hasn't bothered to pick it up after I installed a modest 16x burner  
in his iBook. The second hand internal burner is way faster than  
trying to use a USB external on his iBook's USB 1.1 port.

The external Firewire burner will work very well with Ronda's laptop.  
She didn't say hers was without USB 2 or even the year of it; I was  
only guessing it was not this years model. And warning that the iBook  
must be USB 2 for the USB 2 speeds to work.

roger


On Sep 21, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Jim Manley wrote:

>
> On Sep 21, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Roger Harris wrote:
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>
>> A USB 1.1 takes 20 to 30 min for a music CD. A firewire 400 will  
>> take 5 to 7 min. The newer USB 2.0 is much closer to the firewire  
>> speed, but USB 2 on the drive means nothing if your ibook is USB 1.1
>>
>
> I have the 2005 Ibook & it has USB 2.0 & it is very fast. I have an  
> external 80 gig USB & a Firewire DVD burner and I don't have any  
> problems with either.
> ---
> James Paul Manley
> jpmanley at gmail.com
>