Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...

FireWire is a transfer protocol designed to accommodate the large file sizes of digital video. If your work computer only features a USB port and your camera only has FireWire, you can still download ...

Sometimes devices -- particularly drives -- that offers both FireWire and USB 2.0 connectivity achieves a certain level of throughput when connected exclusively via FireWire, then achieves a lower ...

Apple Computer has almost single-handedly succeeded in turning USB into an accepted interface standard. Sony, Apple, and others are currently making FireWire into the industry standard for multimedia.

Sales of peripherals could get a boost this year as the two primary technologies for connecting external devices to PCs get turbocharged. PC makers in recent months have begun installing a high-speed ...

I am trying to connect a firewire external hard drive to a PC that doesn't have a firewire card. I know that they are two completely different technologies and that most(if not all) of the cables and ...