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Some basic info about USB (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Firewire was phenomenal for external hard drives. The speed was almost as fast as the drives so you were rarely limited by the port.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yep, that's because the actual data transfer was handled by the more capable device, instead of only the guest. I think the standard also required a minimum throughput, iirc, whereas USB only had a maximum.