From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Oct 28 22:25:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (dns1.transbay.net [209.133.53.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6CC337B479 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transbay.net (rigel.transbay.net [209.133.53.177]) by transbay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA92077 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39FBB846.123033FE@transbay.net> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:40:22 -0700 From: UCTC Sysadmin Organization: UC Telecommunications Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB ports replacing legacy ports on new machines References: <20001019023452.223AE1F3@woodstock.monkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message