On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Paul Meyer wrote:
How can FireWire be superior to eSata? I thought eSata made your external essentially the same as one installed inside the case.
SATA, eSATA, PATA, & USB all depend on the constant attention of the CPU for their operation. With SCSI and FireWire the CPU issues a command and it is carried out without further intervention by the CPU. Just one more example of the Apple way vs the PC way.
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