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bluedino on June 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How FireWire came to market and ultimately fell ou...

I loved FireWire. I had an external HD and DVD-RW, I could daisy chain them and connect them to my Dell, Sony, and Apple machines. Faster than USB, only needed one port... everyone complained FireWire was more expensive but the devices performed so much better.

JohnBooty on June 24, 2017 | [–]

I still love it. =)

FW800 gets close to 80MB/sec, which is really as much as I need for my backup/archiving needs. And the daisy-chaining is just awesome.

enjoy-your-stay on June 24, 2017 | [–]

I loved Firewire too, I can still remember the jaw dropping speed (at the time) that it copied music to my iPod.

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