Firewire is so amazing you managed to not spell it correctly each and every time you wrote it...
> USB vs Firewire
There probably aren't many drives that would like living in a little external box and overwhelm a USB2 port. ATA/SATA -> Firewire bridges seem pretty rare too, I think the only ones worth anything are made by Oxford Semiconductor (Actually a British company iirc) and even those aren't all that good. Well, unless you consider good to be not detecting the drive(s) half the time and not appearing on the Firewire bus the other half . I doubt there are any SoC's with firewire built in for devices like this.
> Gigabit Ethernet
200 MB/sec if you don't have any protocol overheads. Hint; You do.
>FAT32
I have a sneaky feeling the hardware inside this thing is fairly weak. Hence it only does FAT32.
>Hopefully these are little Linux firmware boxes which can be hacked to provide
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Firewire is so amazing you managed to not spell it correctly each and every time you wrote it...
> USB vs Firewire
There probably aren't many drives that would like living in a little external box and overwhelm a USB2 port. ATA/SATA -> Firewire bridges seem pretty rare too, I think the only ones worth anything are made by Oxford Semiconductor (Actually a British company iirc) and even those aren't all that good. Well, unless you consider good to be not detecting the drive(s) half the time and not appearing on the Firewire bus the other half . I doubt there are any SoC's with firewire built in for devices like this.
> Gigabit Ethernet
200 MB/sec if you don't have any protocol overheads. Hint; You do.
>FAT32
I have a sneaky feeling the hardware inside this thing is fairly weak. Hence it only does FAT32.
>Hopefully these are little Linux firmware boxes which can be hacked to provide
>some better protocols ... like NFS 8-)
Not likely.