Posted by Jon on November 9, 2009


Firewire Cables: Transmitting videos to the PCs and external hard drives

Firewire is developed solely by Apple for IEEE 1394 high speed cable. The Firewire cable was developed with the prime motive for quicker transfer of video from digital camcorders and external hard drives. When it was first introduced in the market, that very moment it became the preferred choice for transferring the data. Within a short interval, Firewire cable became an industry standard in many PCs and digital camcorders.  The Firewire cables are recognized as IEEE 1394 cables and i-Link cables, worldwide. Firewire cables are coming with different names and it’s because of branding. IEEE 1394 is the original name of the cable while, Apple has introduced it as Firewire and i-Link is the name given by Sony to the same cable.
Today, you can find two variants of Firewire cables and these are Firewire 400 and Firewire 800. The Firewire 400 cables transfer data at the rate of 400 mbps on the other hande, the Firewire 800 cable is much faster and transfer data at the rate of 800 mbps. This is the reason Firewire 800 cables are preferred more than Firewire 400 by the users. If you want to transfer huge amount of data, Firewire cable will perform the function at very high speed. But with the changing demands, Firewire cables are getting replaced with faster USB 2.0 cables. Apple too is not including Firewire as a standard port on computer or laptop. So many computer and digital camcorder users have shifted from Firewire to USB 2.0 cables for data transfer.

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