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Originally Posted by Wickers
But even with the upgrade, you'll get much better performance out of an external firewire drive enclosure, and a new (modern) desktop sized hard drive.
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You're clearly suggesting here that an external drive would be faster than the internal laptop drive.
However, the Bare Feats test regarding
7200 RPM laptop drives makes that claim impossible, as some of the data rates shown there are beyond 50 MB/s, which is the theoretical limit of FireWire 400, which is all the MacBook Pro has. (Yes, I know about FireWire 800 ExpressCards. No, that's not an option.)
In practice, the difference will be even bigger. If you're lucky, the speeds you can get from an external FireWire-based solution are around 30-40 MB/s. Hardly anything above that.