Re: SATA or Firewire 800 for higher track count?
My understanding is that FW800 has a maximum sustained data transfer rate of 70MB per sec...
Most SATA II drives spec around 270MB per sec, but the protocol itself can sustain 3GB per sec...
SATA III is double that.
In the real world the difference is not so marked, but in my experience SATA internal drives wipe the floor with FW800.
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