What is the difference between USB and Firwire?
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both are cables but have different andings and options.\nthe firewire is faster and better than the usb. the usb is good for cam and other external.
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You will need an adapter.\n\nSpecifically, a parallel-to-USB wire.\n\nThe link listed as a source is an adapter made by Belkin. It gives you some more information about this type of adapter.\n\nNOTE: The site may not represent the lowest price for the product. I highly advise searching local stores and internet sites for the lowest price.
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Firewire ~ 400 Mb/s \nUSB 1.1  ~  12 Mb/s\nUSB 2.0  ~ 480 Mb/s\n\n400 >  12\n480 > 400
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plug your cam into your computer with usb or firewire cables
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SCSI is an older technology it was a way to connect devices to your computer with a faster transfer rate the what the ports on the computer had. Now with USB and firewire we don't need SCSI anymore
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It depends on if the maker of the card ever made Firewire drivers for Win98.\n\nI know that the Audigy 1 card had firewire, and it also has full support 98se drivers.\n\nHowever, my question is why would you want to use an OS which is essentially 8 years old?
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You either hook it up to a USB port or Firewire port(IEEE 1394). Then you install the driver for it, and after you do that, you will find it (it will be name :C, :D, etc) in My Computer. They work the same way as a regular hard drive, but its connected to the computer in a different way. \n\nInfo on Hard Drives:\nhttp://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm
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Universal Serial Bus (USB) provides a serial bus standard for connecting devices, usually to computers such as PCs and the Apple Macintosh, but is also becoming commonplace on video game consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 2, and PDAs, and even devices like televisions and home stereo equipment.\n\nThe radio spectrum-based USB implementation is known as Wireless USB.\n\nOverview\nA USB system has an asymmetric design, consisting of a host controller and multiple daisy-chained devices. Additional USB hubs may be included in the chain, allowing branching into a tree structure, subject to a limit of 5 levels of branching per controller. No more than 127 devices, including the bus devices, may be connected to a single host controller. Modern computers often have several host controllers, allowing a very large number of USB devices to be connected. USB cables do not need to be terminated. USB 2 uses bursts, unlike FireWire.\n\nDespite the capability of daisy-chaining several USB devices and that early USB announcements foresaw that each future USB device could replicate the USB port on itself and allow for a long chain of devices, this was never widespread for economical and technical reasons, and typically only USB hubs actually replicate and multiply USB ports, thus making most USB devices effectively "consuming" a USB port, disallowing daisychaining or shared use.\n\nUSB was designed to allow peripherals to be connected without the need to plug expansion cards into the computer's ISA, EISA, or PCI bus, and to improve plug-and-play capabilities by allowing devices to be hot-swapped (connected or disconnected without powering down or rebooting the computer). When a device is first connected, the host enumerates and recognises it, and loads the device driver it needs.\n\n \nA USB hubUSB can connect peripherals such as mice, keyboards, gamepads and joysticks, scanners, digital cameras, printers, external storage, networking components, etc. For many devices such as scanners and digital cameras, USB has become the standard connection method. USB is also used extensively to connect non-networked printers, replacing the parallel ports which were widely used; USB simplifies connecting several printers to one computer. As of 2004 there were about 1 billion USB devices in the world. As of 2005, the only large classes of peripherals that cannot use USB, because they need a higher data rate than USB can provide, are displays and monitors, and high-quality digital video components.\n\n\nStandardization\nThe design of USB is standardized by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), an industry standards body incorporating leading companies from the computer and electronics industries. Notable members have included Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Microsoft, Intel, and Agere.\n\nThe USB specification is at version 2.0 (with revisions) as of March 2006. Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, NEC, and Philips jointly led the initiative to develop a higher data transfer rate than the 1.1 specification. The USB 2.0 specification was released in April 2000 and was standardized by the USB-IF at the end of 2001. Previous notable releases of the specification were 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1. Equipment conforming with any version of the standard will also work with devices designed to any of the previous specifications (backwards compatibility).\n\nSmaller USB plugs and receptacles, called Mini-A and Mini-B, are also available, as specified by the On-The-Go Supplement to the USB 2.0 Specification. The specification is at revision 1.0a (Jan 2006).\n\nTechnical details\n \nPCB mounting female USB connectorsUSB connects several devices to a host controller through a chain of hubs. In USB terminology devices are referred to as functions, because in theory what we know as a device may actually host several functions, such as a router that is a Secure Digital Card reader at the same time. The hubs ar
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usb, its probably easier too
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Motherboard dependant\n\nPentium 4 or modern motherboards should support USB 2.0
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You have to have boot from Firewire/ usb on your board, or have it boot from Usb as the first bootable device. Now, your board also has to support this feature... and hoanstly, why do you want do to this? this is just so pointless... if you want the speed, just get and IDE to Sata cross over bridge they are like 30 bucks.   Secondly, take it from a computer tek, its really pointless.
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External hard drives typically connect via USB or Firewire, so just make sure your computer has the appropriate port to connect through.  There is no software needed (unless it's some crazy cheap poor excuse for a hard drive); They'll usually just show up as a new drive letter in your Control Panel as soon as you plug it in.  The data transfer rate and speed are irrelevant as far as compatibility goes, but obviously the faster it is, the more convenient it is for you (and probably the higher the price will be).
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Yes, it is exactly same in terms of what data one can store and how much etc. \n\nThe only difference is that its connected outside the case and not inside.\n\nIt connect via the USB port and is removable whenever desired.
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To build upon what the above answer stated.  Firewire is faster because it uses a P2P technology for transfers.  USB uses master / slave.  Therefore, Firewire is faster regardless of slower transfer rates.
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http://compnetworking.about.com/ wireless\nhttp://www.homenethelp.com/ wired\nhttp://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread19721.html usb
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Amazon com  or   livewire.com
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Internal drives referred or hard drive it's installed in your computer tower.  An external hard drive usually plugs and with the USB two or a FireWire cable.  The only real difference is, an external hard drive is much easier to install!  And you can take it with you when you go someplace.