Hi, Alan et al My understanding is that the Firewire interface, which was developed to allow fast transfer of huge low-res video files, achieves its speed in part by NOT doing any error checking. In a video file, it wouldn't matter much if a few bytes here and there are corrupted, but I wouldn't want to use this protocol for any other type of data file (i.e., text, Web graphic, even speech). Cheers -- Carol At 11:22 AM 7/19/03 +0100, you wrote: >Dont know about speed I presume that USB2 are pretty fast, but I noticed that >Firewire 800 is nearly twice as fast as USB2. -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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