I have an external HD and for some reason it now thinks my computers have USB 1.1 so to transfer anything its very slow. Does anyone know away to fix this?

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Originally posted by SniFFleS I have an external HD and for some reason it now thinks my computers have USB 1.1 so to transfer anything its very slow. Does anyone know away to fix this?

Try Calling India


but honestly...Firewire?
USB honestly is so slow for everything.

Do you have a shitty External HD? I find that happens all the time. I could never find a solution. Make sure you computer is up to date though.

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Originally posted by exstasie Try Calling India but honestly...Firewire? USB honestly is so slow for everything.

USB is faster than Firewire :P

OK the cheapest,easiest way to solve this problem is to get a USB 2.0 PCI card, which would enable you to have USB 2.0 transfer speeds for the ports on that card. That card costs about $20 or so.

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Try Calling India but honestly...Firewire? USB honestly is so slow for everything. Do you have a shitty External HD? I find that happens all the time. I could never find a solution. Make sure you computer is up to date though.

I loled. Man you should work in customer service

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Originally posted by Vanos I loled. Man you should work in customer service

dude, customer serviced sucks big time ! everybody in the tech field starts and begins their career there and not everyone is cut out for it... i lasted 3 months and i was outta there...

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Originally posted by Invasionmix OK the cheapest,easiest way to solve this problem is to get a USB 2.0 PCI card, which would enable you to have USB 2.0 transfer speeds for the ports on that card. That card costs about $20 or so.

that was my first thought.

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Originally posted by Invasionmix USB is faster than Firewire :P

While USB 2.0 has faster speed on paper 480 vs 400Mbit/s, firewire is actually faster.

Read

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Originally posted by MaxTO While USB 2.0 has faster speed on paper 480 vs 400Mbit/s, firewire is actually faster. Read

I always though Firewire was faster than USB 2.0...

But that's just from my experiences

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Originally posted by Invasionmix USB is faster than Firewire :P OK the cheapest,easiest way to solve this problem is to get a USB 2.0 PCI card, which would enable you to have USB 2.0 transfer speeds for the ports on that card. That card costs about $20 or so.

firewire 800?

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Originally posted by NuERA firewire 800?

USB 3.0

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker USB 3.0

was unaware it was out..i really doubt firewire will last as long as usb anyway

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Originally posted by MaxTO While USB 2.0 has faster speed on paper 480 vs 400Mbit/s, firewire is actually faster. Read

http://www.thetechzone.com/display.php?i=227&p=2

Going the other way, the USB 2.0 interface was able to move the 5.6 Gigs of videos a full minute and 24 seconds sooner than the Firewire interface. Quite a big difference indeed! While the Firewire interface edged out USB 2.0 when transferring from IDE hard drive to portable drive, the USB 2.0 interfaced gave an impressive time saving when transferring from portable drive back to IDE drive.

Given the results I would give the overall performance win to USB 2.0. CableStore.us seems to agree as well. They state that USB 2.0 enclosures out sell Firewire enclosures by 10 to 1.




Side note: USB devices are cheaper (cost of cable, enclosure), and more popular (almost every computer now has USB, while Firewire is slowly becoming more available) so if you want to bring your external hard drive to your buddy's place and copy his stuff, 90% of the time USB would be the interface of choice.


Firewire 800 is the fastest :P but USB 3.0 has been announced :P

USB 3.0 is aiming for 10 times the bandwidth of current USB2.0 solutions, or approximately 5Gbps. Since this requires fiber optic cabling, USB 3.0 will add a length of optical data cable to the mix, though USB 3.0 will retain full compatibility with USB 2.0 (and, one assumes, USB 1.0 as well).

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