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Remembering Apple Firewire: The Standard That Should've Beat USB

FireWire, officially known as IEEE 1394, was Apple’s answer to the limitations of SCSI ("Scuzzy". Yes really.) and the ...
Ars Technica

USB, Firewire, is either really cutting it for external drive use?

I haven't had an external drive since I stopped using my SCSI tower about five years ago. Since then I've tolerated the acceptable speeds of IDE for the tradeoff in large amounts of storage. As my box ...
ZDNet

Faster FireWire on way for gigabit generation

The IEEE has approved the new IEEE 1394-2008 specification that gives support for better bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps — the standard that is used by Apple's FireWire and Sony's iLink, among others. Most ...
TidBITS

Support for FireWire Removed from macOS 26 Tahoe

OS 26 Tahoe marks the end of an era as Apple removes support for FireWire, the high-speed connection technology that preceded ...