Borkachev on 31 May 2008
@borkachev - Usb 2.0 is not nearly as fast as Firewire. This is why pro audio and movie people use Firewire for their media transfers. Try watching a movie streamed from a USB 2.0 drive and then from a FireWire drive. There's a significant difference.
Firewire is faster, but I wouldn't call it significant. In real-world tests, it ranges from about 16-70% faster than USB 2.0. What I'm saying is that a performance difference like that isn't worth adding a rarely-used standard like Firewire onto a console when it already has the ubiquitous USB.
