Making Gigabytes mobile: Firewire Harddrive from Western Digital. making gigabytes mobile. Could Firewire be the solution we are waiting for? Firewire or '1394' is flexible, fast and not too expensive. You can find a list of available products with Firewire interface at the Apple homepage Particularly Canon, Kodak and Sony are making use of Firewire for their DV products....

The Mobile Storage Giant: A FireWire Hard Drive From Western Digital. the mobile storage giant. The ever-increasing hard drive capacities appear to be coming to a halt, but the manufacturers never rest: Western Digital offers its latest top-of-the-line 120 GB model in a portable version with a FireWire interface. Essentially, the recipe is quite easy: of course, Western Digital uses a hard drive from its own production, creates snazzy casing for it, and equips it with an interface so that the IDE drive can be run with a FireWire controller (IEEE1394)....

Fujitsu HandyDrive Video Edition (FireWire). smart and simple. While the data version works with USB 2.0, in the case of the video variation, logically, a FireWire interface does the job. FireWire works isochronously and is thus best suited to data transfers in real time. In our benchmarks, on the other hand, this has no effect; the results show a minimally better performance from the Data Edition with USB 2.0, even if subjective opinion speaks in favor of the FireWire version....

Vendors are now pushing FireWire 800 to the plate for applications such as high-speed hard disk backup. We look at FireWire's robustness, its performance as a LAN network protocol and its data-transfer future.. In spite of a maximum rate of 400 Mbps for FireWire (S400) and up to 480 Mbps for USB 2.0, USB is trailing behind. Things are different with FireWire, with all the devices being connected in series forming a logical chain (peer to peer) and where the protocol also permits physical branchings. There is, however, one aspect that FireWire cannot change, either - namely that the existing bandwidth must always be shared by all the devices....

Drivers Improve WindowsXP Service Pack 2 FireWire. drivers improve windowsxp service pack 2 firewire. IEEE1394 b , the successor standard to 1394 a , also known as FireWire or i.Link, promises a bandwidth of 800 MBit/s. The FireWire DV 800 Kit from Trust contains an IEEE 1394b card with TI chipset; a 1394b cable is, however, not included in delivery Introduced in 1998, the IEEE1394 desktop bus with a gross throughput of 400 MBit/s (S400), which bears the marketing name of FireWire at Apple and i.Link at SONY, was far and away the fastest serial transmission technology in the market....