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One thing I really miss from FireWire devices, particularly of the storage variety, is how rock solid the connection was. It never wavered or blipped out, even
by kitsunesoba 5y ago
One thing I really miss from FireWire devices, particularly of the storage variety, is how rock solid the connection was. It never wavered or blipped out, even when carrying out multi-hour transfers. Compare that to USB storage, which depending on the device can periodically blip out for no apparent reason, even if you’re using reputable cables and all that.
Thunderbolt is better than USB in that regard, but it’s still more flakey than FireWire was.
- flomo 5y agoOn 2 different Windows XP machines, the 1394 controller would reset and the drive would disappear. So maybe that was part of the FW adoption problem. But mostly USB2 was fast enough for consumer drives, unless you were sitting there with a stopwatch.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoI believe it's slowly replacing MIL-STD-1553 data bus in aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1553#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DMIL-STD-1553_is_a%2Cof_a_serial_data_bus.?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1553#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DM... According to Wikipedia the F-35 uses IEEE 1394b