FireWire for iPhoto

[benjai]

I just replaced the internal HD on my ageing first gen alu iMac with an SSD and its blazing fast now. However, my iPhoto library is currently on a USB drive and performance of iPhoto has only improved marginally.

Question is, if I was to replace the USB drive with a FW drive, will I see a marked improvement? I was thinking of either the G-Drive or WD Studio but I read that the WD only uses a 5400rpm drive which does make it a bit slower.

Does anyone have experience with these or any other FW for iPhoto purposes?

 

[Jamkas]

Here is the difference between USB and Firewire.

Now I imagine you will see a speed increase as you're obviously limited by the speed of the USB and not the hard drive.

If you're going to have difficulty setting up a firewire iPhoto library, here is an old looking tutorial.