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Old 05-22-2008, 05:36 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by nerdfactormax View Post
"Although high-speed USB 2.0 runs at a higher signaling rate (480 Mbit/s) than FireWire 400, typical USB PC-hosts rarely exceed sustained transfers of 280 Mbit/s, with 240 Mbit/s being more typical. This is likely due to USB's reliance on the host-processor to manage low-level USB protocol, whereas FireWire delegates the same tasks to the interface hardware." - if you believe in wikiwisdom
Great info, thanks for that. My PC has firewire as well, but I get this nagging feeling that the firewire interface might 'delegate' tasks to the main CPU as well, it being an onboard option of the mobo in my machine. I could dive into this more, but I already set my sights on a USB2 interface (the one I mentioned earlyer in this topic). Besides, in my case I don't think I will ever record more then 4 channels at once. I just want the inputs as I like neat cabling
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