FireWire 400 was a great connector! I resisted using FW for the longest time mostly because the cables were more expensive and less common than USB. Once most o

FireWire 400 was a great connector! I resisted using FW for the longest time mostly because the cables were more expensive and less common than USB. Once most of my computers had it it started to make more sense for faster file transfers and external drives. They were so much easier to plug in without looking than USB, but the FW800 and mini connector went to a more rectangular shape and somewhat lost that advantage. I never ended up getting a camera or anything else that supported FW, but USB always seemed to work well enough for my (relatively light) use case.