There are multiple devices faster than USB and Firewire, but for the consumer who
uses regular hardware, I would recommend the following three interfaces in the
order of the cost they carry.
1. USB3
2. eSATA
3. a Storage Managed/Backup device which makes a massive hard drive (or RAID Array)
availble over Ethernet on CIFS/NFS.
To Answer your question, if you were a corporation with some deeper pocketbooks, you
could use:
1. Iscsi - Scsi over Ethernet
2. FibreChanel - SAN Storage over Fiber.
3. Infiniband - proprietary interface, but very quick.
4. A whole host of more expensive proprietary and open source standards to access
multiple raid arrays (sometimes in parallel), for specialized applications
[Google HPC Cluster Filesystems] and Filesystems interconnects
eSATA is faster than FireWire and firewire is faster than USB.
bluetooth
No. If they were, we wouldn't have replaced them. USB and FireWire are over 3000 times faster with the latest revisions.
The maximum speed of USB2 at 480M/Sec is a little quicker than Firewire 400 (IEEE.1394a) which runs at 400 M/Sec (hence the "400" bit of the name). In tests, however, FireWire 400 delivers a higher sustained transfer speed. Benchmarks suggest that hard drives connected with FireWire will copy information considerably faster than they would using USB 2.0. To achieve higher performance, FireWire requires additional circuitry in supported devices. This often makes FireWire more expensive than USB 2.0. Firewire 800 (IEEE.1394b) as the names suggests, has a peak speed of almost 800 M/Sec. Used primarily by PC musicians for recording and transferring multichannel audio at high sample rates and for digital video cameras and decks
True. Check page 397.
FireWire has a higher transfer rate than USB, making it more suitable for video transfer and connecting external storage. USB is host-based, meaningit must have a host computer to transfer data to / from (with a few exceptions). FireWire devices can transfer data between themselves directly without the need for a computer host. FireWire supports fewer devices connected together (63, vs. 127 for USB).
eSATA is up to six times faster than USB or FireWire
External serial ATA known as eSATA is up to six times faster than USB or Firewire.
eSATA is the fastest of the three.
i am assuming that you know what a firewire is. not all computers come with a firewire input. if your computer doesn't have a firewire IN. then you have to buy a card, which gives you the acessability to plug a firewire cable into your computer.
Your external USB drive only needs a cable.It's only going to be as fast as the bandwidth of a USB or USB 2.0 connection can be?
External serial ATA (eSATA) hard drives is up to six times faster than USB or FireWire.