motorollin wrote:
SHADES wrote:
USB2 is not as fast as firewire
That's not true. Firewire is 400MBps, USB 2.0 is 480MBps.
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moto
You forget that all transfers on USB must be mediated by the host (i.e. the computer) this causes a significant transaction overhead... then the USB protocol isn't as efficient as Firewire... and finally USB doesn't support Isochronos transfers... which basically means realtime operation, which is requirement in the audio industry, to minimize latency (that said, Gigabit ethernet is actually quite good here, but doesn't provide power).
Lest ye not forget that the Firewire provides MUCH more power via the wire than USB.
Firewire is far from on the way out... it just doesn't have much use for the average user, and it never has.
Since I have so much kit that run off a firewire, I could never buy a Computer/Motherboard without a 6-wire Firewire port.
