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Kanguru Releases First FireWire Flash Drive

Posted by timothy on from the and-firewire-is-like-a-hot-wire dept.

hajmola points out this Mac Observer article, which starts "At long last, after years of USB having a corner on the flash drive market, Kanguru has announced its Fire Flash FireWire flash drive line. With capacities ranging from 128MB to 1GB, the Fire Flash is the perfect way to carry your data with you, and since they uses FireWire, you won't be waiting around for the transfer to finish.""

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  1. USB 2.0 is faster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Uh, isn't USB 2.0 faster than firewire?

    1. Re:USB 2.0 is faster by Tumbleweed · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Technically, but not really. USB 2.0 is 480Mbps, Firewire (IEEE1394.a) is 400, but due to latency and protocol issues, Firewire is almost always faster, often _much_ faster than USB 2.0.

      That doesn't even include IEEE1394.b, which is 800Mbps. Unfortunately, these devices aren't of the newer flavour of FireWire.

      You will also certainly find major speed differences in different sets of USB & FireWire chips & drivers, so you'd have to benchmark the things to find out for sure.