FireWire vs. USB: Which Is Faster?
Jan 13th, 2010
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Most modern Macs, except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models (such as my late 2008 unibody, alas), offer both FireWire and USB connections, so when shopping for an external hard drive you have plenty of options for something that will work with your Mac, notes Macworld’s James Galbraith. And these days, he adds, USB hard drives are more common and less expensive than FireWire or even FireWire/USB combo drives. True, but even though USB 2.0 has a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 480 Mbps, vs.
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