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anttipi
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I just ordered the Midiman Firewire 410 and next I will have to buy an external harddrive for my laptop.
My question: Firewire or USB 2.0?
I know Firewire is faster (at least according to the benchmarks I've seen) but there is only one firewire port on my laptop so I would have to share it between two devices. Wouldn't this eat up the bandwidth (resulting in latency issues etc.)? In that case, wouldn't it be better if just the Firewire 410 was connected to the firewire port and the harddrive was USB 2.0?
And is there any difference performance-wise between PCMCIA firewire cards, firewire hubs or simply chaining two firewire devices together? Hubs to my knowledge require external power which isn't very good if you want to have a mobile studio.
My question: Firewire or USB 2.0?
I know Firewire is faster (at least according to the benchmarks I've seen) but there is only one firewire port on my laptop so I would have to share it between two devices. Wouldn't this eat up the bandwidth (resulting in latency issues etc.)? In that case, wouldn't it be better if just the Firewire 410 was connected to the firewire port and the harddrive was USB 2.0?
And is there any difference performance-wise between PCMCIA firewire cards, firewire hubs or simply chaining two firewire devices together? Hubs to my knowledge require external power which isn't very good if you want to have a mobile studio.