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# whats the difference between all of these?
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:18, archived)
# USB 1 didn't really supply enough power to power anything
USB 2 is faster throughput and supplies sufficient power to power hard drives and stuff.
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:19, archived)
# usb 1 - slow
usb 2 - a bit less slow
firewire - faster than both

i have usb 1 ports, and usb 2 devices, so they run too slow to work properly
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:19, archived)
# firewire is faster is it?
shit... i just bought a new harddrive and went for usb 2 because i didn't know what firewire was
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:22, archived)
# link me up to the firewire one, baby!
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:23, archived)
# i'll get my uncle to email the details
its a birthday present see
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:26, archived)
# yesh pleeesh
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:34, archived)
# USB is a safer bet and usually less hassle to set up if you're a bit of a n00b.
If you get fancy and have Firewire 800 then it's an imperial fuckton faster.
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:24, archived)
# how much bigger is that than the metric fuckton?
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:27, archived)
# 1016.0469088 kilograms = imperial fuckton
1000 kilograms = metric fucktonne


This is actual fact of real ton types
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:30, archived)
# thems just real tons. not fucktons
you know nothing, clearly
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:36, archived)
# Times them by
1016.0469088 and
1000
respectively.
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:40, archived)
# ah now you're talking
SCIENCETM
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:43, archived)
# USB 2 runs at 480
So unless you have Firewire 800, USB 2 is faster than the standard Firewire 400. But you probably knew that.
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 22:58, archived)
# In reality it doesn't, though.
If you have two devices connected to your computer it's only getting 240.
USB is bus powered, Firewire isn't.
(, Sat 29 Mar 2008, 23:27, archived)