A Benchmark of sorts -- Firewire vs. USB 2.0
Like many of you, I was concerned about Apple's decision to eliminate Firewire from its new 5th generation video iPod. My concerns were mostly based upon the lack of hard information as to how fast the 5th generation iPods would update with USB 2.0 now that Firewire is gone.
With that in mind, I performed a simple test to determine the difference in update time with Firewire vs. USB 2.0. Specifically, my iTunes library contains 6719 items totalling 32.41GB. Of that total, I have 6 music videos which were uploaded onto my new 60GB iPod Video. In both cases, I did not load any photos onto the iPods. The upload times are:
5th Generation 60 GB iPod Video via USB 2.0 - 1 hour, 44 minutes
4th Generation 60 GB iPod via Firewire - 1 hour, 22 minutes
For what it's worth, I performed the test using a Powermac G5, Dual 2gig, with 4gigs RAM, running OSX 10.4.2 and iTunes 6.0.1.
Hope this helps.
With that in mind, I performed a simple test to determine the difference in update time with Firewire vs. USB 2.0. Specifically, my iTunes library contains 6719 items totalling 32.41GB. Of that total, I have 6 music videos which were uploaded onto my new 60GB iPod Video. In both cases, I did not load any photos onto the iPods. The upload times are:
5th Generation 60 GB iPod Video via USB 2.0 - 1 hour, 44 minutes
4th Generation 60 GB iPod via Firewire - 1 hour, 22 minutes
For what it's worth, I performed the test using a Powermac G5, Dual 2gig, with 4gigs RAM, running OSX 10.4.2 and iTunes 6.0.1.
Hope this helps.
