• Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmings.world
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    4 months ago

    Firewire was phenomenal for external hard drives. The speed was almost as fast as the drives so you were rarely limited by the port.

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      4 months ago

      Yep, that’s because the actual data transfer was handled by the more capable device, instead of only the guest. I think the standard also required a minimum throughput, iirc, whereas USB only had a maximum.