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I'm pretty sure Firewire stopped being a thing ages ago.

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So I was kind of wondering, is firewire a thing? Like from what I understand Apple made it somewhat useful when they did something with that and an iPod or something a long time ago, but like... what can/was it used for? Is it still a huge thing? Sorry, I haven't heard about this thing I feel kind of left out if it is a big thing - I usually hear about just USB 3.0 these days, DVI, HDMI, and display port/displayport even then nothing along the lines of firewire, so am I missing something? D: 

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I'm pretty sure Firewire stopped being a thing ages ago.

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So I was kind of wondering, is firewire a thing? Like from what I understand Apple made it somewhat useful when they did something with that and an iPod or something a long time ago, but like... what can/was it used for? Is it still a huge thing? Sorry, I haven't heard about this thing I feel kind of left out if it is a big thing - I usually hear about just USB 3.0 these days, DVI, HDMI, and display port/displayport even then nothing along the lines of firewire, so am I missing something? D: 

It's like a faster usb it was used a lot for audio/video devices aswell as external hdd's since it was faster than usb 2.0

But it's a bit dead since Usb 3.0 and thunderbolt.





 
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Yeah, as said before FireWire is dead.

I believe it was a bit faster than USB 2.0, but just like Thunderbolt kind of a closed standard and nobody (no device makers) used it.

USB 3.0 is faster too :P

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It was used for audio and still heavily is due to it being superior to USB. USB's protocol is similar to SATA in the way that it can only send data in one direction at a time. Firewire was similar to SAS in that it could send and receive simultaneously which made it favorable for both video and audio work where data could be exported to a device, processed and returned to a host without so much lag.

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