Thanks to @B.Jay I will have a motherboard in 2 weeks :D what fascinates me though is that it has Firewire400 on the board. I personally thought that had died in like 2006 but this board is like 2009 \2010. So I'm curious now about who here has it on their board and if they've ever used it before.
Hey, I can hack my imac now >:D
Have some older Lacie drives that use FW400, but yea its pretty useless at this point.
I have some old PCI expansion cards with FireWire on then that came with my servers and an ancient Dell my family got forever ago. Never used them, but I have one in my freenas server because why not?
Whats cool about FW400 (800 is better but less common) is that you set up one drive and then you can just daisy chain as many as you like and they all mount as if you plugged them in individually. Thats one thing I am excited for.
I have a firewire 400/800 card in my old workstation (circa 2011). I used it for tape capture and have a couple of external drives running off it too. At one point it was an essential bit of kit!
Haven't used it since earlier this year when I was backing up data and don't foresee it being used any time soon. I might transfer the card to my newer PC, the transfer speeds are dated but usable.
Nah, just for antiquated audio gear now and then, I got a pci card to deal with that...
I use Firewire for a recording interface.
For like audio and stuff?
Mmhmm. I think it's a TC electronic konnekt 6, uses firewire which is still pretty popular for AD/DA recording interfaces.
Firewire is used for audio interfaces. In this case throughput doesn't matter as much as latency does. I need it for my Profire 26/26 interface
I used it for a few days back in 2008-09, when 2 of my PCs had firewire. That firewire cable that connects two pc together was so cool. Too bad windows removed that support. Not sure if it works anymore. It was cheap alternative to 1Gbps networking back when there was a premium on 1gbps pcie card, gigabit router and cat5e cable.
But now I have 10Gbps SFP+ DAC cables between my computer and brother's PC and Server/NAS. But yea if ur still into that u can get pci-e thunderbolt addon and thunderbolt 3 (10-40Gbps) speeds.
Not just. They were used for things like External HDD
In the USB2.0 days, FW400 was actually the better standard. Higher speeds and could carry more power through it. Plus, the connector is easily distinguishable so you don't have to try 3 times to get it right.
But everyone went the USB route as the standard.