Text 1495, 52 rader
Skriven 2014-08-16 13:10:52 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 1492 av Ed Vance (13170.windowsa)
Ärende: XP Backup
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On 2014-08-15, 6:23 PM, Ed Vance -> TOM WALKER wrote:
 EV> 08-13-14 07:27 TOM WALKER wrote to BOB KLAHN about XP Backup

 TW>> @MSGID: <53EC9201.13163.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
 EV> --snip
 EV>>> On the side of the TIH 10.0 box it says:
 EV>>> "Supported hardware- P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394
 EV>>> (Firewire) and USB 1.0/2.0 drives, PC card storage devices."
 EV>>> HTH 73

 BK>> IOW, just about everything. Only now everything includes USB 3.
 BK>> SCSI seems to have disappeared. Don't see much firewire either.

 TW>> "Firewire" has been replaced by "Thunderbolt"

 EV> Thanks! Tom,
 EV> I hadn't heard about Thunderbolt, I will have to do a Search to see
 EV> if it is Firewire on something different.

 EV> The first External HDD I got, a WD, had both Firewire and USB 2.0
 EV> connections on it.
 EV> In fact that is why I got it since there are Firewire connectors on
 EV> this XP box with I bought it.

 EV> I thought to try out Firewire to see if I liked it.
 EV> It's O.K.

 EV> It is Firewire 400 .

Both Firewire and now Thunderbolt are most-often found on Apple computers -
Firewire
was developed (and licensed) by Apple though I believe Thunderbolt is actually
an Intel-development.

(Sony also promoted Firewire for a while - mainly as a way to interconnect Sony
Vaio laptops with Sony video recorders).

Firewire was a more efficient data-transfer protocol than USB and as a result
Firewire-400 (rated at 400 Mb/sec) was (in the real world) faster than USB 2
(officially rated at 480 Mb/sec). However, USB had no licensing fees while
Firewire had a small ($2/system I think) fee... and in the low-profit world of
PC technology, free beats cheap.

Thunderbolt has some advantages; for Apple it allows them to use the same port
for Thunderbolt (connecting external hard drives) and for plugging in their
digital video adaptors - saving space in small form-factor Macbook Airs, for
instance. But because Firewire cables and devices require special built-in
circuitry they are inevitably more expensive than USB devices - as a result,
they're relatively expensive and hard to find.

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