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Originally Posted by salohcinluap I see. That makes a lot of sense.
Something else to consider: Right now, I'm sharing an internet (ethernet) connection from a Powerbook G4 which also has a f/w drive attached. Is it viable to use that connection as an external drive? Where is the speed bottleneck? | It's not so much an issue of bottleneck, as it would be an issue of length of pipeline. It'd be sort of like using a 20ft garden hose to water flowers that are only 5 ft away.
You'll have more wait-time between read/write cycles than is healthy for operations that require very fast/reliable speeds.
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