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Re: FastFlashDisks (flash disks)

there is no reason to this argument, please do not rely on it.

no offense to the poster, but firewire has been used for a few years now
as the high speed external bus on apple machines replacing scsi. Hard
drives, cd writers, scanners... are all available for firewire and have
not shown any issues like those described.

but I would not have any problems using firewire for any of my data
needs...

usb requires a pc to use... that is why intel likes it.

firewire can transfer data from one device to another without a pc... that
is why intel didn't like it and now there is USB2.0 ..... granted there is
the usb 5o go initiative but it hasn't gotten very far...

just wanted to comment on this before too many people read it.

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003  wrote:

> wow, I did not know this, thank you for informing me, it would be really bad
> if I had an expensive drive and come to find out its just corrupting what goes
> in lol
>
> thanks again
> and thanks to Alan for the shentech link
> ______________________________________________
> From:     (Carol Stein)
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> To:    
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> Hi, Alan et al
>
> My understanding is that the Firewire interface, which was developed to
> allow fast transfer of huge low-res video files, achieves its speed in part
> by NOT doing any error checking. In a video file, it wouldn't matter much
> if a few bytes here and there are corrupted, but I wouldn't want to use
> this protocol for any other type of data file (i.e., text, Web graphic,
> even speech).
>
> Cheers --
> Carol
>
>

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