USB / Firewire

[jesteraver]

I know there's a new version of Firewire out; 1394b. I know there's USB 2.0, when USB 3.0 going to come and match the 800 mb/s?

Off topic. If I use a 2 gb USB driver and install Windows XP on it will my computer be able to run off it or it depends on the Motherboard?

 

[zephead]

don't worry, firewire is way better than usb 2.

and yes, that depends on the motherboard for booting to it...

 

[Tedster]

Firewire never really caught on with me. Almost every peripheral I have is USB. I don't need flaming external speeds as I don't have an external hard disk. All my HDs are internal and I always make sure I have 2 of them in each computer I have.

 

[LNCPapa]

I use both USB 1.1 and 2.0 and Firewire 400 regularly (almost daily). I don't have any Firewire 800 devices so I don't have much experience with it. Problem is this isn't usually where the bottleneck lies.