The ins and outs of USB (IBM developerWorks)
The ins and outs of USB (IBM developerWorks)
Posted Apr 29, 2005 12:50 UTC (Fri) by njhurst (guest, #6022)In reply to: The ins and outs of USB (IBM developerWorks) by Incabulos
Parent article: The ins and outs of USB (IBM developerWorks)
I'm sorry, I don't understand what this has to do with my question? I was merely pointing out that firewire, which is superior in every(?) respect is almost a dead standard, only holding out in the top end (much like scsi). Why can't I buy a 4GB/s optical firewire drive to go in my desktop case, plugging straight into the firewire port on the mobo? Instead we have USB, USB 2, SATA, PCI-E etc. Technical merit is clearly not the main factor in USB's acceptance (I suspect that Intel being piggy is more to do with it?).
I certainly have used firewire devices, Indeed I was one of the first users of firewire storage (having an early firewire apple machine running linux/ppc).
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