http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/ Engadget Comments for FireWire: over a billion ports served http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/
Sounds right to me.]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/2. Can it scale frequencies limited only by the hardware?
3. Can it scale voltages limited only by the hardware?
4. Can it perform connection multiplexing?
5. Can it go wireless, losing only the ability to supply power?

--Can I, as an individual, use it, and only it, to run my entire house, building my own appliances, and sell the thing for three million dollars without lawyers showing up at my door?

USB is horrible. Firewire is horrible. Maybe some day people will see the light.]]>Apr 9th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/

]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/
Not that I'm bias, just the way things happened...]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/
the beauty of firewire, besides the speed, is how tightly it connects to devices. that is why it is the ideal choice for us professional photographers to plug into our digital camera backs.]]>Apr 10th 2008 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 10th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/On the other hand, we've got more USB devices than finger and toes to count them on. So much for bragging rights, 139...what?]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/On top of that, USB i the de facto standard - one type of connector at the PC end that has been widely embraced for years now, Firewire never had a chance.

For out-and-out speed, eSATA is at least a match for Firewire 800 and supports low-level drive features such as S.M.A.R.T. which Firewire does not, making it a more suitable connector for external drives.

That leaves one area and one area alone in which Firewire is king, which is camcorders.
But as we switch from more traditional magnetic tape media to HHD or solid state storage, even that will slowly die.


Put bluntly, for the vast majority of people, Firewire is a waste of a port.
Were it not for Apple, it probably would've died a long time ago.]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/
In practice, USB 2.0 is slower than Firewire 400, and requires more CPU utilization.

I've been able to sustain ~50MB/sec for large transfers onto a firewire 400 drive.

USB is cheaper and more ubiquitous, but Firewire is faster.]]>Apr 9th 2008 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 10th 2008 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/
(Seriously, I never poked a connector in it.)]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/

That's what HE said.]]>Apr 9th 2008 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/
firewire is dying - and this is only propaganda IMO.

Ports mean nothing if they aren't being used.]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/
As much as FireWire is better than USB, latter has huge advantage over former: price. And we all know that price rules PC market.

Also, there is a misconception about speeds. Modern USB 2.0 devices on average are faster that FireWire 400 devices. Reasons is simple: USB is more widespread and more people are looking into how to improve it. And it did improve in recent yeas greatly, while FireWire still refused to address its main issue: price...

Pure technically FireWire as bus-master capable, asynchronous interconnect is superior to primitive USB. But do not forget that Intel CPUs are also started as primitive 4 bit calculators. "Price" is keyword to win in PC market.]]>Apr 10th 2008 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Doesn't need anything but a standard cable.
Why waste ports.
]]>Apr 10th 2008 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 10th 2008 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/
And I would venture to sat that 95% of those machines have never once seen a FireWire device plugged into them.


There are some cases where FireWire makes alot of sense, but this press release is pure nonsense.]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/attacked = attached
venture to sat = venture to say]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/firewire-over-a-billion-ports-served/Apr 9th 2008 9:46PM