I bought an eSATA cable and hooked it to the Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme 1.5 TB drive. I'm getting 6.5 GB per minute. a 200 GB compressed backup in...
USB to same device is about 5x faster at 40MB/s. Though not quite as steady because its USB. Firewire has higher sustained speeds when working...
This won't be very helpful except to confirm that Acronis TI seems to have a problem with firewire and Vista x64 SP1. I was all over the forums...
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