DVD Burner - FireWire or USB 2?

[r]Evolution wrote on 6/4/2003, 2:46 PM

Which type of external DVD Burner do you think I should go with... Firewire or USB 2?

P4
2.4 Ghz
1 Gig DDR
ASUS MoBo

I already use an external Firewire HardDrive. Can I daisy chain Firewire Devices? Or do you think it would be best to use USB 2?

Thanks in Advance.
Lamont

Comments

atedee wrote on 6/4/2003, 3:31 PM

I choose firewire. You can daisy chain and does not require drivers. Also with most other peripherals (like KB, mouse, media writer/reader) attached to your computer the bus is easily swampped thus slowing down your system. Put it this way, I've heard and experienced problems with connecting multiple USB pheriperals but never with firewire.

Paul_Holmes wrote on 6/4/2003, 11:05 PM

Agree. Have an Acom 80G Firewire/USB harddrive. If I'm not video-editing works fine on USB for file transfer and rendering. If I connect a camera for capture or preview the whole system sometimes freezes up. As soon as I unplug it as USB and reconnect as as Firewire I get beautiful and glitch-free previews and captures.

(athlon 2200, 512DDR, Vegas 4)

Carel wrote on 6/4/2003, 11:21 PM

I have had nothing but trouble with Firewire. And so have many other people on this forum. I have two HDs AND a DVD burner hooked up to USB-2, use them for all VV related work and never had a glitch. I know that in theory it should be worse than Firewire, because it uses the CPU, but that has never caused the slightest problem.
(P4 2.2GHz laptop with 4 USB-2 ports)

MDVid wrote on 6/4/2003, 11:33 PM

Have used both, without any problems. Currently, I have 2 USB 2 external hardrives, 2 firewire external harddrives, and an External Sony Multiformat burner on my firewire, (can be USB2 or firewire). Rather than 'daisy-chaining' the drives, I have a Granite Digital firevue hub that I plug my external firewire devices into. I have had occasion to be running several rendering sessions at the same time, while burning DVD--W/O problem.

JTH