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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 5066575" data-attributes="member: 12966">Really?  Hundreds of thousands?  If you have a link to a technical site that says that, I'd be very interested.  Some of the new Samsung units have very high rewrite rates before failure, but those are very expensive units so far.The read performance from either type of unit will be more than enough for audio.  For video (assuming MPEG2 compression) you'll want at least 4-5 Mbps uncompressed so about 2-3 Mbps from the device should be plenty.  Both types of devices are rated for speeds much, much higher than those so you shouldn't have any issue.<tangent>If you get tired of waiting when writing to an external drive, go with a Firewire drive (the technical name is IEEE-1394).  I commonly get about 2-3 MB/s to my external 7200 RPM drive over Firewire-400 and about a third of that or a little less using USB 2.0 -- to the same drive in the same enclosure.Note that USB 3.0 has been ratified as a standard; Linux has drivers for USB 3.0 already, but Windows doesn't (that I know of).  Devices should begin showing up early this summer (chips were being sampled last May).  It probably won't kill Firewire-800 because it's still interrupt-based instead of DMA, but it's a move in the right direction; it can theoretically provide speeds of up to 400 MB/s (yes, that's "MB").  USB 2's theoretical upper limit is 53MB/s but rarely will a device achieve more than 10-15 MB/s (about 25%) so USB 3 should be expected to see real world speeds of 100 MB/s as an upper limit (my personal opinion is that it'll be closer to 70-80 MB/s on Windows).</tangent></blockquote>

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