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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Hardware / Software - Firewire vs. IDE (DVD burner) |
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Kailieann                   Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6337 days Last view: 6337 days |
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| 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. |
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MathOnNapkins  1100  In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6338 days Last view: 6337 days |
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| 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. | |||
HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6338 days Last view: 6338 days |
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Optical drives are slow anyway.  |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6337 days Last view: 6337 days |
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| 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 |
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