Is Firewire Dead?

At the moment eSATA (external SATA) which has a target transfer speed of 3Gbps.

In the future (sometime) USB 3.0. It’s target transfer speed of 5Gbps is even faster than eSATA. Given that USB has always more prevalent than firewire I don’t think it would survive for long after USB 3 turns up.

USB 3.0 FTW!

USB 3.0 would replace Firewire.

I’m not convinced that Firewire is on its way out yet. Plenty of high end equipment still relies on it. The high end camera I used to make my final project at university (a Sony model which is regularly used in television and movies) used a Firewire hard drive because of the read/write speeds.

Until USB3.0 becomes mainstream, you’re still better off with Firewire800, although you could also go with external SATA. Ultimately if you are only going to be using it for backups, and if you aren’t doing a full backup each time, Firewire is probably your best bet (I theorize that due to Firewire’s longer existence time, the prices for components would be lower than SATA which is newer, but have no actual numbers to support this theory).

Firewire isn’t dead, but searching before asking a question apparently is.

http://www.fluther.com/disc/37600/is-firewire-on-its-way-out/

Thanks for your input, seems to answer my question very well. Sorry for not searching as well.

USB does a poor job a transferring large files. It does better with numerous small files. FireWire does better with large files, which makes it a better choice for connecting video cameras and transferring large media files quickly. FireWire 800 and USB 2 have similar throughput ratings, but the FireWire actually performs much better in production environments. FireWire S1600 and S3200 will be backwards compatible and will match USB 3. I haven’t seen so much eSATA. I’m sticking with FireWire as my interface of choice.