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Some basic info about USB (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Firewire was good for high bandwidth devices like external hard drives and video cameras because it didn't require the CPU to do any heavy lifting. These days USB is mature enough and CPUs are so fast that we (mostly) don't notice any performance impact but in the Core 2 Duo days you could easily max out one of your two cores with a large file transfer over USB.