I've been using USB 2.0 to my external Seagate HDD and a buddy said I'm all wet - that Firewire is way faster. Speed is good. Is firewire worth the cost of a cable to save time for regular ...

I barely use my DVDRW and was thinking about opting for an external version. I noticed they come with Firewire and USB support. My question is, is it possible to use the external drive as a bootable ...

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. Two billion ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

The 1394 Trade Association announced a new standard of firewire with speed quadruples current spec of 800Mbit/s to 3.2Gbit/s . It wouldn't be named alphabetic order like they have for 1394a, 1394b to ...

Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...