Western Digital External Hard Disk Drive

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The benchmarks showed that FireWire bandwidth of 400Mbit/sec is quite enough to prevent a contemporary ATA/100 hard drive connected to your PC via FireWire interface from becoming a hand brake. As we saw in most tests, the performance difference between the FireWire WD drive and the same ATA/100 drive never exceeded 20%, which corresponds to the difference between 5,400rpm and 7,200rpm HDDs. Yes, the external drive appeared slower than its ATA/100 fellow, but we shouldn't forget that WD1200BB is one of the today's fastest IDE drives.