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should i connect firewire plug on front panel?

keakar

keakar

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how do i connect my IEEE 1394 firewire plug on my cases front panel ?

i have the specs listed to the left and could find no access on the motherboard to plug it into and nothing in the manual mentioned it so do i need a IEEE 1394 firewire to sata adapter and plug it straight into the sata port? or should i just leave it unused?

i should note that i have no firewire devices but i may get an external hard drive soon so which is faster or better, firewire or esata?.
 
Personally, i don't find a need for my firewire on the front so i took it out. My external doesnt even have a firewire connection to it.
None of those yellow ports say IEEE 1394? next to the USB connections(from front panel)
 
lol ESATA is the fastest external device connectivity available. If you get an External HDD and have a ESATA port, you're blessed.
 
Not all motherboards feature a IEEE 1394 port. You should check if your board has one.
 
BullGod said:
Not all motherboards feature a IEEE 1394 port. You should check if your board has one.
Click to expand...

And some motherboards have one and then the port that comes with the case has terrible connector (or lack there of). My front panel IEE1394 cable had all the tiny wires seperated out so you had to plug each wire into its respective tiny pin.

Needless to say I cut the cable off at the back of the port and have a firewire port that doesnt work.

Also, ESata is the way to go...
 
Esata is great.

I have an E-sata cage with an 'old' 160GB WD drive in it.

Over USB, i get ~35MB/s (vista speed reporting)

Same drive/cage over E-sata gets 52MB/s at peak, average 48-50.

Also, E-sata has the lowest CPU usage (none) - its just the same as having the drive internally :)
 
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