LaCie and others now off a Firewire 800 card that really allows the data to move along at a somewhat brisker clip ;-))
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10173 Shel > [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > ARrgh! I would have recommended buying a FireWire or USB 2.0 interface > card and loaned you a drive ... I have several in enclosures that > support both interfaces. The interface cards are available for $30-$50. > You can even get a combined card (usually 2 FireWire and 3 USB 2.0 > ports) for around $60, IIRC. > > If I were you, I'd plan to add one of them to the system hardware. USB > 1.1 is way too slow for multi Gbyte data transfer needs. FireWire > (400Kbps) would have done 33Gbytes in about 25 minutes. > > Godfrey
