Re: flex/gpu/heat issue - Rollcage and carbon fibre effectivenes
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:24 am
Yup. USB devices lack the sophisticated controllers of Firewire (IEEE 1394) devices; most of the control is done through software.Colonel O'Neill wrote:I'm pretty sure any interaction with drives hooked up through USB 2.0 incurs CPU overhead. Which is sorta why eSATA or USB 3.0 is going to replace USB 2.0.
On the plus side, USB 2.0 isn't as much of a security risk as Firewire...