[UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire

[Alex Dawson]

Is this with the new Macbooks? I have heard there are some speed  
improvements for USB2 implementation on there..

On 12/11/2008, at 9:05 AM, Kris Kopicki wrote:
>>
> As someone has already mentioned, you can still do this with USB  
> drive enclosures, however depending on the size of the SOE you are  
> restoring, it may add significantly to your time. We did some  
> testing with one of the new 500GB LaCie Rugged cases, just to see  
> how bad USB2 really is:
>
> FW800: 52MB/sec
> FW400: 32MB/sec
> USB2: 24MB/sec
>
> So as you can see you take quite a speed hit for USB2, which you'll  
> really notice if you are restoring 15GB dmg's like we do. The better  
> way to be doing this is with Netboot/NetRestore. You can't beat the  
> performance of Gigabit ethernet. We can restore a 15GB SOE to an  
> iMac in 14 minutes (with verification). Of course if you're machines  
> don't have access to ethernet, then USB is your only option.

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