Thursday, January 9, 2003 |
02:38 - FireWire 800-- more than the sum of two 400's
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CapLion had the following to say about FireWire 800, as included in the new RealUltimatePowerBook:
By the by.. I recall you wondering why firewire 800 needs a different connector. It does because there are nine pins, and it uses an optical interface.
Biggest difference: Cable ranges over 100 meters.
It was designed primarily to fill the need of producers who run digital studios, and need cable runs longer than 5 meters, with no signal degradation.
It also has double the usable bandwidth of USB2, with no cable EM noise. Aaah, elegance.
It's quite surreal to plug a FireWire hard drive into a FireWire video camera and have it download it's data. What computer? :)
He also told me that FireWire 800 can be looped; you can do something like:
So if a cable link goes down somewhere in the loop, you'd still have access to both devices. You can also terminate the loop to a second machine, and share the devices between the machines. (The devices can be FW400 devices too.)
Of like is me.
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