usb 2.0 or 1394, which will win?

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: kami
Well USB obviouslt for mp3 players, digicams, printers, scanners, etc....but for external hard drives, and video editing...firewire is the standard and USB2.0 will no dethrone it.

I'm particularly interested in external CD-RW and hard drives. Most of the newer ones I've seen are both USB 2.0 and FireWire compatible.

I'm wondering people who buy these are they using the USB 2.0 or FireWire connection? Are they PC or Mac users?

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: kami
Well USB obviouslt for mp3 players, digicams, printers, scanners, etc....but for external hard drives, and video editing...firewire is the standard and USB2.0 will no dethrone it.

IMO firewire should be for nearly everything you listed. It has the ability (that USB doesnt) to recharge the batteries inside a portable device and the speed should double very soon to 80% faster than USB 2.0. And of course the CPU utilization. there is a cost consideration but with wider usage it would drop (firewire).

 

[Lucky]

because apple is not getting an exorbitant kickback like they are on firewire

they aren't getting anything. it WAS .25, its nothing now.

 

[kami]

I'm wondering people who buy these are they using the USB 2.0 or FireWire connection? Are they PC or Mac users?

Anyone with half a brain would use the firewire on an external HD...no CPU utilization and better transfer rates. I'm a PC user (of course) and use an external 7200rpm firewire HDD. I often need to transfer gigs of data from computer to computer so it's really the only solution...plus it's good for storage.