[ddots-l] Re: firewire vs usb
- From: Nickus de Vos <bigboy529@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:23:45 +0200
As I said USB 3 has been around for a few years now but still it only
appears on higher end pc motherboards and apple is sticking to USB 2
because they have firewire. I think if USB 3 had a chance it should
have been implamented on all pc motherboards of all price ranges, it's
also backwoods compatible with USB 1 and 2 devices so I think they
should completely ditch USB 2 ports on motherboards if they really
want USB 3 to go anyware.
On 3/21/12, Blake Hardin <blakehardin5487@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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