IO Data Device has come up with another hum-dinger. If you were to put an enormous hard drive inside a USB 2.0/FireWire casing, give it some blue LEDs, and add a USB port, you’d end up with the 400GB ...

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 haven't had an external drive since I stopped using my SCSI tower about five years ago. Since then I've tolerated the acceptable speeds of IDE for the tradeoff in large amounts of storage. As my box ...

The IEEE 1394 Trade Association has announced a new FireWire specification that the group claims is capable of delivering up to 3.2Gb per second of throughput. The new interface (officially known as ...

Microsoft will not support a budding peripheral-connection standard in its forthcoming Windows XP operating system, instead favoring a technology developed by Apple Computer. The Redmond, Wash.-based ...

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.

The 1394 Trade Association announced a new standard of firewire with speed quadruples current spec of 800Mbit/s to 3.2Gbit/s . It wouldn't be named alphabetic order like they have for 1394a, 1394b to ...

Various FireWire and USB devices can cause indefinite stalls in the Mac OS X startup routine when connected prior to or during the the boot process. In many cases the stalls can be obviated by simply ...

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 ...

Apple's new MacBook and MacBook Pro models contain more innovation than just their case design, graphics, and the improved accessibility of their internals. Here's a look at other details related to ...

PC Magazine has posted an extensive comparison of FireWire and USB 2.0, two peripheral connectivity technologies vying for the attention of PC users. The results are ...