is firewire 800 the bottleneck here?

[bniu]

Currently have a 5400rpm hard drive connected over firewire 800. Mighty fast, so since FW800 can actually sustain the 100MB/sec speed, what would the drive's full speed potential be? Is FW800 still the bottleneck or is the drive the bottleneck?

In other words, what is the approx transfer speed of a 5400RPM hard drive by itself? What about a 7200RPM hard drive?

 

[throAU]

Firewire is 800 megaBIT.

So you can only expect maybe 80 megaBYTEs per second or so, tops (8 bits per byte, some protocol overhead).


Yes, it is a bottleneck on modern drives.

 

[paul117]

Firewire is 800 megaBIT.

So you can only expect maybe 80 megaBYTEs per second or so, tops (8 bits per byte, some protocol overhead).


Yes, it is a bottleneck on modern drives.

i must say that response is nice and simple.