[iBook] external drive: USB vs. firewire

[Jim Manley]

My Ibook was released 2005. It has USB 2.0 @ 480 mb/sec.

Jim

On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Roger Harris wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>> 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
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