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firewire or USB for external music storage drive?

Are there any advantages to using a firewire 400 interface for a terabyte Western Digital hard drive with music stored as FLAC files over using the USB 2.0 interface?

The laptop is running XP with the last service pack and the audio is using Jriver Mediacenter ver 12 with ASIO for USB output.

I use a Hag usb converter to go to my old sonic frontier MkII DAC.
tcatman

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ckorody
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all good except that you will find many more USB DACs then FW DACs...
ckorody
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Jax - my bad - thnx for setting me right

I think it's all been well said by the other poster -

the only thing I can contribute is that in my experience I have seen no evidence that USB robbing the processor of cycles is an issue in any way, shape or form - now if we were talking about video it might be an issue but then we'd also be talking about FW800
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