Thread: Poor external firewire drive writing speed
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Old January 26th, 2008, 08:29 PM
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The PCI G4 suffers from the same limitations as the Blue&White G3. The FireWire bus is an early implementation of IEEE-1394. You can't boot from that FireWire, and the performance of the firewire bus is definitely sub-par.
I think you could use a PCI FireWire card and get much-improved performance.
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