[mdlug] External Hard Drive as Backup

[Aaron Kulkis]

Dan Pritts wrote:
>> Does firewire offer higher speeds than usb
> 
> Firewire does most of the work for you, but USB requires your CPU
> to do most of the heavy lifting.  This along with some architectural
> details which i don't know much about makes Firewire faster.

But both protocols are extremely slow compared to CPU speeds,
so this really doesn't matter, other than CPU load.

And...as noted recently firewire ports are a security hole at
the hardware level, which means no OS can protect against it.