USB 2.0, which can move data up to 480mbps, compared with the pokey 12mbps handled by USB 1.1, provides stiff competition for FireWire, a technology invented by Apple Computer that transports data ...

Here's why it will make eSATA and FireWire obsolete. When USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market in early 2010, it will have been 10 years since the now ubiquitous USB 2.0 was introduced (April 2000).

By the time IEEE 1394 was ratified as a standard in 1995, FireWire offered two-way 400 Mbps transfer speeds, daisy-chaining of up to 63 hot-swappable devices, and an integrated microcontroller to ...

IEEE1394 (it's only "Firewire(tm)" if it's implemented with an Apple-approved chipset in a Mac) makes a different approach to a serial bus than USB does.

Despite the fact that FireWire is fast and is here now, Intel is pushing USB 2.0 as the real connection standard for both low- and high-speed devices on consumer PCs.

The USB 2.0 ports offer transfer rates of 480 Mbps; FireWire ports offer up to 400 Mbps. The USB ports are backward-compatible with USB 1.0 and 1.1. D-Link provides driver support for Windows XP ...

Although FireWire 400 is faster at most tasks than USB 2.0 (even though FireWire 400’s theoretical bandwidth is lower than USB 2.0’s) it isn’t always, or by much.

Intel has stated that it expects USB 3.0 to be 10 times as fast as USB 2.0, which would give it a 4.8Gbps transfer rate. In contrast, the current iteration of S3200 will top out at 3.2Gbps.

After becoming fed-up with USB, I started giving some FireWire-based audio devices a try. So far, I've tested Presonus' FireBox and M-Audio's FireWire 410.

How to Download a FireWire Video Using USB. FireWire is a transfer protocol designed to accommodate the large file sizes of digital video.

The 1394 Trade Association is touting the success of FireWire ports , saying that the technology has reached the 2 billion ports mark. But that puts it far behind its competitor, USB.

Intel had initially backed FireWire, but the company pulled its support and shifted to USB 2.0 in light of the new FireWire fees and USB 2.0's 480 Mbps top transfer speed.