Comment on Some basic info about USB
aniki@lemmings.world 3 months agoFirewire was phenomenal for external hard drives. The speed was almost as fast as the drives so you were rarely limited by the port.
Comment on Some basic info about USB
aniki@lemmings.world 3 months agoFirewire was phenomenal for external hard drives. The speed was almost as fast as the drives so you were rarely limited by the port.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Yep, that’s because the actual data transfer was handled by the more capable device, instead of only the guest. I think the standard also required a minimum throughput, iirc, whereas USB only had a maximum.