Posted by Roberto Divia on 05/22/07 08:34

Rick Merrill wrote:
> David McCall wrote:
> ...
>> Firewire (IEEE 1394) is much more robust. All of the DV cameras
>> use IEEE 1394 for transfer to and from the computer. Most computers
>> come with built-in IEEE 1394 ports these days.
>
> Actually, USB2 achieves higher actual throughput than Firewire
> implementations.

Peak: yes.
Average/sustained (e.g. with HDD + medium-big files): no.

There are several benchmarking around. The majority gives FireWire a small
lead over USB at a lower CPU occupancy.

In any case, for DV cameras the "throughput" issue does not exist (but the
"CPU occupancy" does...).

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