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firewire or USB for external music storage drive?

Are there any advantages to using a firewire 400 interface for a terabyte Western Digital hard drive with music stored as FLAC files over using the USB 2.0 interface?

The laptop is running XP with the last service pack and the audio is using Jriver Mediacenter ver 12 with ASIO for USB output.

I use a Hag usb converter to go to my old sonic frontier MkII DAC.
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mmarvin19
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Hi everybody.

I have a USB cable running out of the rear of My PC to my USB DAC. I also have a USB cable running out of the PC's front to my printer. I have no idea if the 2 cables are riding on the same bus.

Assuming that they are on the same bus, does the printer USB "tax" the DAC USB only when I use the printer or is it a conitnuous thing?
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