FireWire speed potential is great, but is limited by the speed of the drives and the efficiency of the controller firmware. I expect FireWire drive makers to close the gap between them and the internal IDE drives. Then I timed how long it took to duplicate it on the same drive. Then I timed how long it took to duplicate it on the same drive. The ATTO disk benchmark was run using Express-Pro Tools 2.2 benchmark test with 8MB maximum file size and system disk cache disabled.
Sustained Rate is displayed in the charts.
Peak rates can be expressive but do not reflect overall drive performance.