Re: [SLUG] How does Firewire stack up?

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Alan Lee wrote:

> .. I work in a computer store, we deal alot with just about everything,
> everythin from 2.1gb IDE's right upto 500gb raid 5 setups.  We have never
> had a firewire hdd in stock.. yet.. nor has anyone wanted em.  Unless you
> got the money to play around with, stick with somethin EVERYONE else has,
> and will always seem to use.  We only got our first firewire card in stock
> about 3 weeks ago.  Some guy wanted to hook his Digital Video camera upto
> the computer, and his friend said to get a firewire card.  It worked well.

Hard drives are not the sole use for firewire - in fact, hard disks were
an add on at a later stage when someone went "Wow, you could put your hard
drives 2 kilometres away from your computer with this stuff!".

The original intent for firewire was for AV applications and the like. For
that purpose, Firewire is blindingly fast, and damn reliable. For hard
drive attachment, the standards are still evolving, and are subject to
"interpretation" - you know, like the "standards" Microsoft supports?

Given time to evolve properly, Firewire will become a boom, not a bust.

DaZZa



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