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Some basic info about USB (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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