Attaching Firewire800 drive speeds up SSD

[green86]

For fun, I decided to give it a go:

Unplugged
Drive Type ST95005620AS
Disk Test 47.89
Sequential 130.99
Uncached Write 118.82 72.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 163.58 92.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.66 27.70 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 183.70 92.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 29.30
Uncached Write 8.55 0.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 253.68 81.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 101.75 0.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 174.75 32.43 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Plugged
Drive Type ST95005620AS
Disk Test 47.09
Sequential 125.59
Uncached Write 115.88 71.15 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 161.66 91.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 86.24 25.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 183.82 92.39 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 28.98
Uncached Write 8.40 0.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 280.29 89.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 101.13 0.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 178.66 33.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Both my scores go down with it plugged in lol.