Topic: External hard drive speed

[zowie]

Hi:  My laptop has at best a 5400 RPM HD -- I actually think its probably 4800 or something, but don't have the info handy.

It has no problem keeping up when recording 2 tracks, but when doing editing work it seems to be the bottleneck for the system.

Would an external 7200 RPM firewire or USB 2.0 drive be faster, or is the extra drive speed not really any issue because of the limitions of the connection speed?

Thanks

[John Kelly]

Go with a firewire 7200 drive.  Firewire is faster than USB2, and 7200 would really be a lot better for frequent hard drive accessing.

[jpschust]

and you will find a lot more people willing to buy a fw drive if you ever wanna sell it

[zowie]

Thanks.  Question wasn't so much firewire v usb2, but do you get the full benefit of the 7200 speed if it has to run through firewire interface.  Sounds like you guys are saying yes, right?