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Originally Posted by annikk.exe
Why would firewire be better? Firewire transmits at 400mbps but USB2.0 can go at 480MBPS..
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My almost complete electrical engineering diploma tells me that Firewire has a dedicated DSP chip for transfert, while USB require the main host CPU intervention more often. This result in Firewire being around ~20% faster compared to USB, mostly for large transfers (Hard drives, Sound interfaces).
The 400/480Mbps (mega BITS per second, not BYTES) rate are the theorical electrical max speeds the specification would handle.
Imho, Firewire is far greater than USB 2.0 for many reason, architecture, speed, convinience and more. The only thing is that since Apple made Firewire, Microsoft obviously used its ugly marketing machine to promote USB instead, because they like cheaper, less reliable solutions (just like Windows!)
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03.02.2009, 09:12 PM
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