Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Sep 2007 18:43 UTC
Two interesting bits of news from the Haiku front. First, Haiku now has basic support for FireWire, thanks to GSOC student JiSheng Zhang. You cannot connect a FireWire hard drive just yet, though. Second, Russian BeOS hacker Troeglazov Gerasim has ported Samba 3.10 to Haiku, so you can now browse your Windows shares in Haiku, as well as share files through Samba in Haiku. IsComputerOn has the details, as well as some screenshots.
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RE[7]: FW is my fav in this one
by Obscurus on Tue 4th Sep 2007 22:58
in reply to "RE[6]: FW is my fav in this one"
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Actually, the main reason AFAIK why firewire is more expensive is because Apple charges hardware manufacturers relatively exorbitant licensing fees for each firewire port used on a device. USB has prevailed because Intel chose not to charge excessive licensing fees for it & it is a fairly open standard to implement. Though yes, firewire hardware is a bit more expensive to manufacture as well, so the expense has been compounded, hence its unpopularity with manufacturers.
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2005-07-11
FW is more expensive, due to the fact the interface is much more intelligent than USB. That functionality isn't utilized in smaller devices, so manufacturers have gone to cheaper USB. FW is faster because is has it's own dedicated clock wires, where USB has to embed a clock signal in it's 2 wire implementation ( the other 2 are power, ground). That means that many of the bits in the 480Mbps are used only for the clock synchronization, and your actual data throughput is much lower for USB.
FW actually allows devices to be daisy-chained, up to 63 devices, and hot-pluggable. There is FW800, and the spec actually is defined to go to 1.6gbps, but hasn't really been adopted.
Now that would be a cool Haiku screenshot... 63 FW devices.
But I think your right, eSata will prevail in the future.