can you get a usb adapter for a firewire cable
can you get a usb adapter for a firewire cable
eSATA is faster than FireWire and firewire is faster than USB.
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).
One can purchase an external USB firewire hard drive in electrical appliances stores such as Radioshack. In addition, Amazon or eBay will have external USB firewire hard drives.
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?
bluetooth
Usb 2.0 and usb 3.0 (new)
firewire and usb
No. If they were, we wouldn't have replaced them. USB and FireWire are over 3000 times faster with the latest revisions.
CD duplicators used to use Firewire, but these days almost exclusively use USB connections.
The Motherboard
FireWire generally supplies more voltage, at a maximum of 30 volts. USB provides a maximum of 5 volts.