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Apr 10, 2009
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so basically, does fw800 bottleneck the speed of the harddrive at all, or will these two interfaces be similar with a 5400rpm disk?
 
Seeing that FW800 has maximum real world speed of ~80MB/s, it won't. 5400rpm usually stay under 80MB/s so you should be fine
 
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