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| FreeDOS + Posts: 811/1312 |
It'll be slower over Firewire than IDE.
From experience, a DVD burner in USB1.1 could burn at about 0.2x. as a guestimate, Firewire might be able to burn DVDs at about 4x |
| HyperHacker Posts: 3123/5072 |
Optical drives are slow anyway.  |
| MathOnNapkins Posts: 748/1106 |
As I understand it, since the data is transferred in a serial fashion, it uses more cpu cycles than using an IDE cable. Aside from that I don't think there'd be a huge performance hit. |
| Kailieann Posts: 340/808 |
So my CD burner crapped out a while back, and seeing as a DVD drive was the last major upgrade on my list, when I saw a good deal in the back-to-school flyers, I said 'what the heck' and ordered a Lightscribe DVDRW.
Here's the thing, though. It's a hybrid interface -- as in, it can be used internally as an IDE drive, or externally as a USB or Firewire drive. Now, good though I may be with software, I'm far from being an expert with hardware. I know the basics, and a bit more on top of that, but.. *shrug* Anyways, I only got my first USB drive a little over a month ago (and a second one a couple weeks later), and while it works fine for hard drives.. *clears throat* The point I'm trying to get at is that I would prefer to use my new burner with Firewire instead of IDE, so I'm wondering what kind of performance loss I might be looking at. I'm not a high-maintenance user, so I don't need it to be top gear per se, but if there's a big difference, I might reconsider and just go with internal. |
