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Originally Posted by CYF
* USB 1.1 ? 15 Mbps
* FireWire (1394a) ? 400 Mbps
* USB 2.0 ? 480 Mbps
* FireWire 800 (1394b) ? 800 Mpbs
* SATA 1.5 ? 1.5 Gbps
* SATA 3.0 ? 3.0 Gbps
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* USB 3.0 - 5.0 Gbps
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In practice, Firewire 400 is generally faster than USB2.0 
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In practice and reality Firewire is a highly efficient peer-to-peer, full-duplex, non-polling data communications protocol with very low overhead. Firewire delivers much higher actual throughput than USB 2.0. USB 2.0 hovers more around 40MB/s.