Firewire or internal boot?

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Firewire or internal boot?

I have a question about which would be better to boot from, firewire, or the internal hard drive in my G4 Cube. I know that the max transfer rate for firewire is 400 something mbps, but the firewire enclosure i have is for a 2.5" ide drive, which at most ide drives run at is 133. I'm not sure, but I think the Cubes HDD runs at 66, it may be 100.. but yeah, you get the idea, which is better to boot from?

iBook G4 1.33Ghz, 1.25 GB ram, Mac OS X (10.4.11), G4 Cube 450mhz, 768 MB ram, OS X 10.4.11

Posted on Jan 29, 2010 9:27 PM

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Jan 29, 2010 11:20 PM in response to x_theforgottensoldier_x

Hi -

...which is better to boot from?

The internal drive.

Although the internal bus is ATA/66, the net data transfer rate to and from the internal drive will be faster than that with a firewire drive.

FWIW, a firewire drive will have a faster data transfer rate than the optical drive, but the internal hard drive will be faster yet.

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