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Firewire Specification Approved For Speeds Up To 3.2 Gigabits/sec

X38 said:
Why would you want eSATA when FW3200 is available? It would be nice to see some simplification in interface standards, which is exactly what FW was supposed to achieve. eSATA should be axed before it gets going now that a better standard is available. Hopefully USB 3.0 will now be a non-starter too.
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Because eSata unlike FW3200 it doesn't need a chip to convert SATA signal into FW3200 signal, eSata is faster and lower cost!
Also you can easily find eSATA enclosure for much cheaper price even compare to FW400.
All I want is an extra eSATA port on those upcoming new Macs and keep FW as always.
 
orbital said:
Still no where near as good as eSATA. Firewire's in herrent technology is single channel. eSATA is dual channel meaning you and read/write at the same time. Firewire has to alternate between read and write. That is why professional video people rarely rely on firewire to do heavy lifting on jobs. However this is great news for backup solutions and HD cameras/ higher res still cameras.
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Nice flawed logic. Video production rarely needs read/write at the same time so who cares.

SATA is a hard drive interface technology and is a digital serial stream.

Firewire is a generic, yet robust serial digital stream very well suited for the reliable transfer of video, audio and generic data. Which is why maybe every single decent DV and HDV camera has either a Firewire port or an i.Link port if it is a Sony brand standard.

In all seriousness; professionals in the high-end video field generally use SDI interconnects between equipment; and use ultra fast RAID arrays connected to the host computer using either FibreChannel or UltraSCSI. Is eSATA and Firewire also used....Yes, and both pretty much deliver the same performance.

A single hard drive can barely saturate a FW400 bus, so unless you are using a RAID system, FW800, eSATA or now FW3200 isn't really going to help you all that much for speed increases.

-mark
 
~Shard~ said:
It will be nice to see these new technologies hit the market, although I'm curious what the price points will be for the external hard drives and so forth which incorporate them. A FW3200 external HDD for backup sure would be nice!

But then that begs the question, will the external hard drives and the like be able to utilize all that speed? Where are the potential system bottlenecks?

Regardless, nice to see something compete with eSATA.
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FW is so much cleaner cable wise than eSata will ever be. eSATA is just like PSATA, too many cable to make it a nice external connection.

As you said, bring on the eSATA competition.

Bill the TaxMan
 
bdkennedy1 said:
In my opinion I hope Apple doesn't adopt this.

USB 3 is about to be released with speeds up to 3gbps and it's backward compatible using the same connector.

Trying to find Firewire 800 products are a major pain in the ass.
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Yes, but they work & the work they do they do fast.

Bill the TaxMan
 
BenRoethig said:
They're not the only ones, FW800 never really caught on and use of FW400 is dropping fast.
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Did you forget that IH makes a 4WD 4 door pickup boxed truck built on a full diesel tractor setup. Even at the $110,000 entry point there is a market for them. So maybe there'd be a market for FW3200 on *(ntel Mac Pros & Intel MacBook Pros.

Bill the TaxMan
 
 
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