[quote author=“FrodoID”]The bigger problems are latency time (which increases your access times, which are in most of your usage scenarios more important than data throughput) and CPU usage for USB overhead handling, which means that your CPU is actually busy while transferring data from and to the harddisk and you just don’t want that - it’s not necessary and especially poisonous for multitasking.

Well said.  That is the reason why if I have to face that scenario myself, I’d go for a firewire enclosure, even at 400Mb/sec.  The TR has adequate CPU, but not enough to waste without consideration.  FW is much more efficient than USB 2 in that regard.

Best,
Marcelo

[quote author=“mfabre”]
Well said.  That is the reason why if I have to face that scenario myself, I’d go for a firewire enclosure, even at 400Mb/sec.  The TR has adequate CPU, but not enough to waste without consideration.  FW is much more efficient than USB 2 in that regard.

Thank you very much. It’s just so nice when someone does not ask why Firewire should be better than USB, since “USB is 80Mbps faster”

“But it says there on the box!”