whats better, the alesis multimix 16 firewire, or USB? and why?
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Firewire is better as it has far faster transfer rates than USB although you will find more products are USB but you can usually buy a firewire cable
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Get a real fan.  The USB is nice, but not very practical unless you can put it near a window.  Plus, unless you drag your computer all over the house, you can't move the fan from room to room if need be.
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Firewire nowadays is used for camcorders and digital cameras and some audio/video devices. but since USB 2.0 has appeared, it will be more and more displaced by that standard.\nmax. throughput of\nFirewire (IEEE 1394a): 400Mbps, (IEEE 1394b): 800Mbps\nUSB 2.0: 480Mbps\n\nsee also\nhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IEEE_1394.html
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Macromedia Flash Pro 8 or Macromedia Fireworks
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Yes, the Firewire 800 has a 9 pin connector. You can also find the firewire 400 to 800 connector if you need to transition between the two.\n\nAs you might expect, the 800 is backward compatible with 400 speeds. There is very little much difference between the two.\n\nThe extra pins are for more power and bigger data path.
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I've never hard of a converter for that, and some extensive searching didn't reveal anything.  If you're having problems with a PC Card for Firewire, the problem may be with the card itself.  In my experience, Adaptec makes firewire PC cards that work very well.  I've used their DuoConnect card on an older PC that didn't have USB 2.0, and expect their FireConnect card would work as well for FireWire only.
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to shorten your long treatise\nFirewire 1394a:  400MBit/s = 50MB/s\nFirewire 1394b:  800MBit/s = 100MB/s\nUSB 2.0: 480MBit/s = 60MB/s  .... all speeds are peak values\n\nin comparison with internal hard disk speeds:\nIDE ATA133: 133MB/s\nSATA 1.5Gb/s: 180MB/s\nSATA 3.0Gb/s: 360MB/s .... both SATA disk types hardly reach that maximum speed\n\nas the comparison shows, an external disk never reach the speed of an internal one.\nand as an advice to you, it's not necessarily needed to have a Firewire card and an external HD case with 1394b interface (except you're a total computer freak). you can easily go for an external USB 2.0 disk case with an IDE or SATA disk. it's cheaper and it will do the job for storing music files and other stuff by far and it has the advantage that you can use it on nearly every computer, because USB 2.0 is a common interface.
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Hispeed USB2.0 port transfer data faster.\nUSB2.0 offers an underlying bit transfer rate of 480 Megabits per second.\nSo get that USB2.0 Now :)
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Yeah, FireWire is the name Apple Computer uses for the IEEE 1394 communication protocol. However, you'll find this same port on most video cameras and many non-Apple computers.  For example, Sony calls its implementation "iLink".  FireWire 800 transfers data at about 800Mbps, while USB 2.0 can only manage 480Mbps. \n\nThis extra speed is valuable for high end audio video applications, and for external hard drives, but USB 2.0 devices are cheaper, and are therefore much more common for less expensive devices such as Apple's own iPod. \n\nSo, if you're looking at digital video cameras, I'd strongly recommend buying one with IEEE 1394 support, but if you just want to move MP3 files around, you can get way with USB2.0.
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No, you need to get a fire wire port.  You should be able to get a firewire PCI card with 4 or so ports for around $20.
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I used both and Limewire sux! Ares is the best. I get alot faster speeds with ares than limewire and Ares has no spyware. Ares is so much better!
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use a firewire to move them quikly or if you want to do it for a little cheaper you can move the hard drive to the other computer and make it better unless you want both, then use a flash drive to move it in between computers, will take a while, but it is simple to drap the music files from the computer to the flash drive, then the flash drive to the other computer
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You can`t, but if you need the speed of a 2.0 USB port, you can buy a PCMCIA USB2.0 card, they are no very expensive, and some even have 4 ports and Firewire ports.
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for music and video i prefer ARES\nfor availability of programs(lower speed), i prefer EMULE\nsomething that is the best between the all, can be bittorrent if u know how to use it
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A single 1394 port can be used to connect up 63 external devices. In addition to its high speed, 1394 also supports isochronous data -- delivering data at a guaranteed rate. This makes it ideal for devices that need to transfer high levels of data in real-time, such as video devices. A very fast external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of up to 400Mbps (in 1394a) and 800Mbps (in 1394b). Products supporting the 1394 standard go under different names, depending on the company. Apple, which originally developed the technology, uses the trademarked name FireWire. Other companies use other names, such as i.link and Lynx, to describe their 1394 products.
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yes, the plextor ConvertX should work for you if you want to use the USB rather than firewire.\nOtherwise there is the Canopus ADVC-110 which supports firewire 400.
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Hello,\nThe firewire's speed is 3.2 Gigabytes per second. It has a 6 pin connector, it is a type IEEE 1394 cable, and it can have a maximum of 63 devices connected at 1 time. The Firewire's maximum cable length is 328 feet.