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Originally Posted by Charles Freeborn
...I think USB 3.0 is meant to be competitive with firewire....
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Because everyone just see's theoretical throughput and thinks it's on par but that's not the whole story and ignores the primary advantage of firewire.
A firewire device requires no common processor.
You can plug any two firewire devices together and they can communicate / function collaboratively and independent of a PC.
That's actually dependent on the devices of course, they have to have a need for each others functions, a firewire NIC is useless to a digital camera if the camera does not have a network stack.
But what results from that is consistent throughput because you are not dependent on available CPU cycles or affected by processes that drag the host system down.
Plus you can daisy chain it and no SCSI voodoo to deal with.