From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 29 0: 4:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341A837B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 13pmWL-0005oK-00; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:04:45 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA03022; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:04:20 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Subject: Re: USB ports replacing legacy ports on new machines To: UCTC Sysadmin Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <39FBB846.123033FE@transbay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28-Oct-00 at 22:26, UCTC Sysadmin (support@transbay.net) wrote: > I thought USB's speed limit was 400kbps. I can't see using USB for ethernet > or disk. From what I've read, Firewire is the better solution of the two. > Way better throughput. I have recently seen a hard drive with a firewire > interface, FWIW. Throughput isn't the only important factor. For example, how do they compare on topology (maximum cable distance, maximum depth of hub cascading, etc.)? > If I read industry standard practice correctly from the retail point of > view, USB will be pumped up and sold out until the next "wonderful bus", > a.k.a. Firewire, is "discovered". It's only money. I expect them to peacefully coexist for quite a while - I doubt that you will be seeing Firewire keyboards, mice, modems, or other relatively low-speed devices; and I suspect that the USB disk drives and Ethernet ports will fade away once Firewire is sufficiently close to ubiquitous and the faster Firewire peripherals approach the cost of the USB versions. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message