• Uninvited Guest@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I remember having a FireWire in one of the family desktops when I was a kid. Can’t remember what we might have used it for, though.

    It resides in the same vague memory hole as the Zip drive that we had.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmings.world
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      2 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.

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
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        2 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.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, the ZIP drive was just starting to take off when the Internet killed needing a sneaker net (at least of that size). Add in CD-ROM drives which you needed anyway. And good night.

    • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      I had a FireWire hard drive! I remember I bought specifically the enclosure that supported both standards since my motherboard had a FireWire port and on paper it was faster than usb! Too bad the HDD was as slow as molasses