Unfortunately, while the scores are satisfactory, the added Turbo capabilities were disappointing. Interestingly, the FireWire 400 Turbo and USB 2.0 Turbo connections produced very similar scores that were within the margin of error both finished the duplication test around 1 minute, 15 seconds and took 1 minute, 37 seconds to complete the Photoshop test. ![]() The 1GB Duplication Test and Low-Memory Photoshop Test were all generally a few seconds off the best times posted by other external drives. While using the FireWire 800 connection, OWC’s Mercury On-The-Go FireWire 800/400 + USB 2.0 ( ) beat the My Passport Studio by a full 6 seconds, or 15 percent. This speed puts it on par with competing drives, but its FireWire 400 (51 seconds) and 800 (41 seconds) Turbo copy results were less than impressive. It took 52 seconds to copy a 1GB file while using the USB 2.0 Turbo connection. The results could have used a more significant boost with the turbo capabilities, because the drive’s scores were disappointing in our time trials.
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