Is PCI faster than firewire and USB 2.0?

[ShawnD1]

I was looking at an external hard drive that takes either USB or firewire. I currently only have USB 1.1 so that means I would either have to buy a USB 2.0 or firewire adapater that plugs into PCI. I know firewire is a lot faster than USB..... but I only know that when it's integrated into the motherboard. When it's plugged into PCI, I'm not even sure if it would run at full speed; I'm thinking maybe the PCI speed would bottleneck the firewire.

So now the big question, is PCI faster than USB 2.0 and firewire?

[[Neo770]]

PCI is faster then firewire or usb 2, because usb and firewire bandwidth is measured in megabits so the 480megabits of firewire is only abut 60 mb/s and PCi has like 133 mb/s so there's plenty to spare.

[John Prophet]

PCI has to be faster than firewire or usb.

JP

[Telexen]

I think PCI is 266mb/s actually

[DanGrease]

PCI is faster than both of them, I was going to say the exact thing as what Neo said, but he was faster

dan

[DanGrease]

Telexen - There are different types of PCI, I have 133, but it also exist 266 which is faster. Just to make sure

dan

[[Neo770]]

your nornmal average 32bit 33Mhz PCI is 133 mb/s, then there's 66Mhz and 64bit versions, which im not sure what there bandwidth is, but im sure someone will come along with the math for that.

[Telexen]

http://hankfiles.pcvsconsole.com/answer.php?file=512

[RamonGTP]

Regardless of weather or not you get an adapter card, or its built into the motherboard, its running off the PCI bus in both instances.

[ShawnD1]

Cool, thanks guys.