Firewire will be slower then USB 3.0. According to Extremetech, the speed for USB 3.0 will be 4.8 Gbits/s. But you won’t actually transfer at that speed, if you have used USB 2.0, then you know you never get 480 Mbits/s. At least I haven’t ever gotten 480 Mbits/s from USB. Same with SATA 2 hard drives, you don’t get 3 Gbits/s. If you go to the manufactures site of the hard drive, it’ll say the max speed is like 300 Mbits/s. Depending on the drive. So with USB 3.0, hopefully you’ll get around the advertised speed of USB 2.0. You probably won’t get 300 Mbits/s from a SATA 2 hard drive, unless you have a raid, but that probably wouldn’t be the stable speed. Reviews I’ve seen on newegg, say they get around 200 Mbits/s in a raid, for some SATA 2 hard drives.
“One example of their speed goals is to transfer a 27GB HD movie to a portable device in 70 seconds.”
27000 / 70 = 385 Mbits/s
Almost the advertised speed of USB 2.0.
“The same thing would take 15 minutes or more with HighSpeed USB (2.0).”
27000 / 900 = 30 Mbits/s
USB 3.0 To Boost Peripherals to Multi-Gigabit Speeds
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