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From: Dana Lacoste <dana.lacoste@peregrine.com>
To: "'Bernd Eckenfels'" <usenet2001-12@lina.inka.de>,
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Subject: RE: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow?
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:29:17 -0800 
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> Because Firewire is Consumer electronics and nearly dead. Dont now of
> Enterpise Solutions with Firewire. Besides there is no 
> switching support for it.

Also the bandwidth differences :

Firewire (Generation 1, what you can get now) is 400Mbit/s
FC Gen 1 is 100MByte/s
Gen 2 is 200MByte/s
(OK, I know those last two numbers are right, but I don't
know what the NAMES of the standards are :)

Firewire isn't even supposed to be in the same league! :)

Dana Lacoste
Ottawa, Canada
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