Glass breaks.
Posted on 01/17/2009 9:21:59 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Anything I do is instantaneous. Milliseconds. And I have spare HDs allready formatted and partioned with the all the programs in the same way for replacements for swap-outs. That has to be done delicately. If only one of those 68 pins has a bad connection - you're screwed to the floor until you find it.
And solid state hard drives!
And Quad SLI of four 1-gig DDR4 video cards!
And 4GHz quad-core processors!
And 2-gig DDR3 DIMMs for $10 a stick!
Oh wake up, slash!
Hey! I can dream, can't I?
I think that should be X-Rated.
While not related to USB 3.0 - I thought I would ask anyway.
Can anyone recommend a decent Core i7 motherboard?
SCSI will be back!
Long live the Syquest 40!
//sarc//
You ever play with fiber optic patch cable.. to fragile for the average consumers... besides you can push gigabit per second over copper right now
Just floppies?
It’s practically made my CD-R/RW obsolete as well.
I’ve got silos of unused CD-R media sitting around.
And now the larger drives are making my DVD-RW less used, as well.
I’m beginning to wonder if physical media will give way to memory devices for nearly every application, including movies.
Glass breaks.
Firewire, it was good to know ye.
A month or so ago Toshiba announced 512Gb SSD. No mention of price, just availability in 2009.
The announcement I read is here but there's not a lot of meat.
But I’ve been looking for a good firewire capture box to transfer all my betamax videos.
I hope they completely re-did the protocols and topology, because that 480 with USB2 is usually quite a bit slower in reality than the lower-specced Firewire 400, and it’s less flexible and puts more load on the system. Remember, USB was designed to be a cheap, low-speed connector. Everything after that was fitting a Porsche turbo engine in a Bug.
IOW, 4.8 Gbps in USB 3 might turn out to be 3 Gbps or less in real life. Firewire 3200 is looking at about 3.2 Gbps real-life throughput and should hit the streets first.
If USB 3 wins, it’ll mainly be because of market forces, not technical merit.
December 18, 2007 |
Battle of the data titans: USB 3.0 vs. FireWire 3200
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By Triston McIntyre
If you didn’t know, both interfaces USB and FireWire are preparing to release new iterations of their interfaces; Firewire will go “3200″ and USB will move from 2.0 to 3.0. That begs a few questions: what’s so special about the new interfaces and which one is better?
So, its fairly common knowledge that the majority of computer users are much more acquainted with USB than they are FireWire. Somewhere along technology adoption train, someone decided the world needed USB more than FireWire.
And here we are. However, its very important that the masses know the distinction between USB and FireWire, and why USB might not be the only good method for data transfer.
What is USB all about? USB, or Universal Serial Bus, is in everything, and you’ll never be short of a data transfer interface. The current USB 2.0 claims to transfer data at 480 Mbps. Those are the perks.
On the flip side, there’s FireWire. Many common computer users might never see a FireWire cable; professionals and Mac owners tend to be more familiar with the technology. Right now, there are two versions of FireWire in use; FireWire 400 and 800. If you’re catching on to the number scheme by now, you might guess that FireWire 400 transfers at 400 Mbps and 800 transfers at 800 Mbps.
Where’s the difference, aside from speed? FireWire delivers about 97% of the performance it claims, where USB tends to deliver substantially less…maybe half of what it promises. This is mainly because FireWire operates largely on its own, using very little processor power. It runs on a peer 2 peer setup rather than the master to slave setup of USB.
Why not? It worked last time. ;>
Cause Apple liked Firewire...
There, fixed it for you. They push motherboards and chipsets, hence by extension connection standards.
Also, USB is a lot easier to implement for a broad range of peripherals, from slow speed like mice to medium-speed stuff. You'll never see a FireWire mouse. Hence, if you only have one interface - and you want only one to shave costs - USB it is.
This is what I use to transfer my videotapes. It's a little pricey, but works like a charm.
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