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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (63299)	8/25/1998 12:41:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

12 mbps = 1.1 mbytes /s compared to 40 MB/s for ultrascsi, and that's if there is nothing else on the USB... it could work OK for backup but no speed demon. for comparison, that's about twice the speed of things that plug into a bidirectional printer port.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (63299)	8/25/1998 6:09:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, Re: I know what you are saying but the USB on the iMAC is 12 mps It is 12Mbps which is 12M bits per second divided that by 8 which gives you 1.5MBps which is 1.5M Bytes per second. For some comparision : UDMA is 33MBps (33M Bytes per second) SCSI (the slowest is 5MBps or 5M Bytes per second) Gary