For the Apple its solid, the PC ones I just bow to the mighty wintel gods and use ... USB 2.0.
Feel free to try firewire on the PC, but do not ask me to fix it.
Bob
I've got an opportunity to buy an external 160Gb harddrive that connects by either USB 2.0 or Firewire, or to buy an internal 200Gb hardrive, with IDE connection ATA100 7200rpm and an 8Mb buffer. This will be a secondary hardrive used to process mini dv tapes to a dvd burner.
Conveience wise the external would be best, but i'm wondering about any singificant drop in data transfer from using the external, or any other conflicting problems by trasferring from a camcorder via firewire and then going into an extranal drive via firewire or usb. To offer a little more info, the firewire/usb 2.0 card i have hooks up to a 32bit pci slot.
Thanks for any assistance,
Brian

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