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New Generation of Cases?
mikeb55121 writes "In my never ending quest to build a bigger and better computer i have come across this new design of computer case that is prety intresting to me and possibly any one else out there who build their own computers. This case is very unique because it is shaped as a "T" and the manufacture says that it ends cable clutter and has very good airflow." The aesthetics aren't bad, and the concept is solid. It'll be interesting to see if this catches on. I kind of doubt it.
This may be rough on these guys, but I'm not changing my case unless it does my laundry, my homework, or finds me a date - something every geek would like. The rectangular ones seem to work fine - when you kick them, they make a nice clunking sound.
...oOOo..'(_)'..oOOo...
Upon reflection I think it looks like a great addition to my computer room.
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Even not looking at the speed of things, firewire is a much better protocol than USB.
Firewire is pretty close to SCSI when it comes to its protocols, where as USB is best compared to RS-422.
With USB there is a host (computer) and devices (everything else)
With firewire, everything is a device, and they can all talk to eachother.
If USB HD 1 wants to send data to USB HD 2, the host computer must read one drive and write to the other. There is no other way.
With firewire, *A* computer (Yes there can be more than one on the bus) can instruct HD 1 to send data to HD 2 in large chunks, so there is very little overhead going through the computer.
Two firewire drives will be able to have the full 400mbit between them, where as two USB2 drives will only beable to send at a theoretical speed of 240mbit/sec because half of its 480mbit bandwidth is from one drive to the PC, then the other half is from the pc to the other drive.
Also having say 5 PCs and a number of firewire devices (generally not harddrives as they are a special case) each PC will see the same hardware and they can all use it in a shared fasion.
The PCs also can run IP over firewire and use it for networking as well.
harddrives will be seen by all the machines as well, its just typical computers assume a disk will be seen by itself only, so do not plan ahead for what to do when that data is changed unexpectantly.
None of that is possible with USB, and without special hardware you cant attach two or more PCs with USB (no a hub is not special) as each computer needs an adaptor to make it a 'device' instead of a 'host', and then the device computers cant see the rest of the USB chain.
USB was designed and made to replace serial.
Firewire was designed and made to be generic and have anything/everything run over it, including IP, video signal, serial, disk protocols, etc.
If you only need basic serial operation and very little over head, yes USB may be concidered better. But thats the only case it would be true.