[ddots-l] Re: firewire vs usb
- From: Blake Hardin <blakehardin5487@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:11:56 -0500
does this still apply for usb 3.0 as well?
On 3/21/12, Nickus de Vos <bigboy529@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi as the article posted said, a lot of simularities but big
> difference is speed. practically when it comes to sound USB audio
> interfaces usually can't record more than 2 or 3 audio tracks at once
> because of the bandwith however presonus now has a 8 pre amp USB
> interface and they say you can record 8 channels at the same time with
> some clevver technology they employed. On the other hand with
> firewires much larger bandwith you can record a lot more tracks at the
> same time, most firewire interfaces has 8 pre amps like the focusrite
> pro40 and presonus studiofire. On these you can comfortably record 8
> tracks at the same time but you can even dazy chane more than one of
> these interfaces and record more than 8 tracks at once. I'm speaking
> under correction but think presonus said they successfully tested 4
> firestudios dazy chaned which gives you 32 tracks but they said more
> might be possible. All of this can be done using 1 firewire port and
> obviously a computer with a reasonable processor where if you try
> record 32 channels via USB well it will just be imposible.
> USB 3 is faster than USB 2 but it has been around for a few years now
> and only some of the higher end motherboards supports USB 3 and not
> one of the audio or camera manufacturers adopted USB 3 on their
> products so if you ask me it's not really going to take off on pro
> devices. Then there's also Apples relativly new thunderbolt standard
> with transfer rates of up to 10 GBps which is basically more than 10
> times faster than firewire, if thunderbolt groes I think it will
> eventually replace firewire but it's only now starting to come in and
> external hard drives etc with thunderbolt technology is still quite
> scares and expensive. As I said eventually thunderbolt will replace
> firewire but I think it's safe to say in the audio world anyway that
> firewire is here to stay and the interfacing format to use at least
> for the next 5 or 10 years. Throughout the years the audio
> manufacturers had the typical atatude of if it's not broken why fix
> it, so they have been very slow to adopt new interface standards. As a
> little example I think PCI express on motherboards came out before
> 2004 someware and only 2 or 3 years ago companies like avid and RME
> also started making PCI express cards though they still make the same
> cards in a PCI version as well for those not having PCI express
> motherboards and it's the same with firewire and USB 2 and 3,
> everybody's not suddenly going to jump on the USB 3 or thunderbolt
> band wagon, they'll give it time and see how it pans out, basically
> let the industry standard pick itself.
>
> On 3/21/12, Data <data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The key difference between FireWire and USB is that FireWire is intended
>> for
>> devices working with a lot more data -- things like camcorders, DVD
>> players
>> and digital audio equipment. FireWire and USB share a number of
>> characteristics but differ in some important ways.
>> Read more: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/firewire3.htm
>>
>> Hope this helps. -Andy.
>>
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