I've used it for hardrives and video cameras (it was the standard way to get Video off a minidv tape camera). I always found it worked well. But on video I R

I've used it for hardrives and video cameras (it was the standard way to get Video off a minidv tape camera). I always found it worked well. But on video I Remember the different names being bing used being confusing. And while all macs had it some pcs didn't. With USB being ubiquitous and USB 2 being good enough when it finally showed up. Somewhat oddly mac was a big pusher of USB as that's what the original iMac used. Had intel put it in its chipsets...