Buzz Out Loud Lounge: USB vs Firewire/iLink/IEE1394
USB vs Firewire/iLink/IEE1394
by punterjoe - 8/4/08 5:56 PMMy understanding was that Firewire (& it's variants) had far lower overhead than USB and realworld performace tended to be better than USB, but USB won the ubiquity war because of less onerous licensing policies.
Also, wasn't Firewire designed to be the successor to SCSI, where USB was intended to replace the Parallel port (a much lower bar)?
I always thought USB
by DaveBinM - 8/4/08 7:40 PM In reply to: USB vs Firewire/iLink/IEE1394 by punterjoeWas designed to replace serial ports. Hence Universal Serial Bus (USB), though I could be way off here.
Both are nearly the same speed.
by R. Proffitt
- 8/5/08 5:55 AM
In reply to: USB vs Firewire/iLink/IEE1394 by punterjoe
You will find those that will engage in a battle over this but why not use what works for what you need to do?
Bit of Irony
by fuzzywombat - 8/5/08 6:23 AM In reply to: USB vs Firewire/iLink/IEE1394 by punterjoeIronically, Apple the creator of firewire was the company that made USB popular. The bondi blue iMac was probably the first computer that did away with all the legacy ports but had two USB ports instead. When iMac started selling like crazy, peripheral companies jumped on the USB bandwagon and PC manufacturers started adopting in mass. USB did exist before iMac but it was basically useless because there were no devices for it. iMac came along and changed all that very quickly. Since firewire is still around so I can't say that it's completely dead but it's largely been marginalized except for digital video transfer connection and some higher end data storage like drobo.
I always thought.....
by Magishine - 8/5/08 1:28 PM In reply to: USB vs Firewire/iLink/IEE1394 by punterjoeUSB runs off the processor while Firewire has it's own chipset. Or something along those lines.
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