[rescue] External Drive on a Mac Book Chassis

[nate at portents.com]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:02:55 -0500, William Barnett-Lewis
<wlewisiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about firewire? Would a SATA drive stuffed into an external
> firewire case be any faster?

Yes.  With Firewire 400, max theoretical is about 50MB/sec, real world
you'll see a bit over 40MB/sec with relatively low overhead.  USB 2.0 would
get real world a bit over 30MB/sec with a lot more CPU overhead.  FW800 if
you have it is preferable, since max theoretical is about 100MB/sec, real
world is more like 80MB/sec.

- Nate