On 25 Mar 2005 at 2:17, Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Yes, IBM developed the 1g Microdrive in CF2 format & it has been
> expanded & copied by many. I wouldn't mind having a 4g CF card for my
> PDA for MP3s & my Canon G2 digital camera that also does short movies.
When I learned about it, the friend that has one, was after a couple
of drinks and told me he paid $100. But since the party was at his
place, I did not argue. The next day, he remembered the real price :-
)
> In practical usage Firewire has proven to be much faster than USB 2.0
> & with less connectivity problems. Why PCs had to adopt the Intel
> technology is beyond me as the USB ports came after Firewire but that
> was made by Apple so it had to be bad is a bunch of bunk.
I personally have not used either. Still in the (slow) USB mode. I
did hear about USB2 being slower in practice, than Firewire. Did
some digging and found that the USB protocol is a bit less efficient,
but it was on the order of few %. There were also some early
implementations of USB2 that had problems. So I'm puzzled that many
people report the visible speed difference.
> I've compared a few external drives that were both Firewire & USB 2.0
> & Firewire was always nearly twice as fast on several different machines.
Now I may never install that adapter card with USB2 on it :-)
As for why USB is in more machines? It's not the first time, the
good guy lost :-) Folks at Intel must have invested money into the
development and now must re-coup it, by making sure it is used on
WinTel systems. It's called corporate strategy :-) You get, what
you get.
Rich
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