What's the difference between Algor and Deneb?

[platon42]

ZyBeR wrote:
What's the real difference between Algor Pro and Deneb USB cards?
I have a Algor Pro in my A4000T today and was thinking if I would have any benefits of upgrading?

Additionally to what has been said already: Softwarewise, the Deneb is the only card supporting realtime isochronous transfers, making it possible to use cheap USB Soundcards and the Sonix chipsets for Webcams. Also the Deneb supports QuickIO with even less CPU overhead for transfers.

[platon42]

Tension wrote:
This may be a stupid question, but does that mean I could boot my A4000 with Denab from an attached USB Memory Stick?

My entire System partition is only 1 Gig!! Secondly, I assume if this worked it would be a lot faster than my 6 year old vanilla no-frills 20 Gig IDE drive??

Yes to both questions. Depending on your setup between 4.5 MB/sec and 8.5 MB/sec are normal, which is at least twice as fast as the internal IDE which will do 2.3 MB/sec at most.

(Denab, that's even better misspelling than Denep ;-D Doner Denab ;-)