Kent Pribbernow
05-04-2004, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040503005794&newsLang=en' target='_blank'>http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040503005794&newsLang=en</a><br /><br /></div>"The 1394 Trade Association will bring a new set of FireWire technology demonstrations to this year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference May 4-7 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. Developed and managed by Oxford Semiconductor, a leader in 1394 product design, the demonstrations will be part of the Windows Community Pavilion on the WinHEC floor."<br /><br />"In the second demo, Oxford Semiconductor also will provide a demonstration of a 1394b RAID system showing the ability to stripe at 80 MBytes/second speeds, almost three times as fast as USB 2.0, which completes the same striping tasks at only 30 MBytes/second. The 1394b version of the standard, which also is known as FireWire 800, delivers speeds up to 800 Megabits/second and distances up to 100 meters, making it ideal for long-range home entertainment network backbones and other applications."<br /><br />Sounds interesting. This will really open the Firewire to new possibilities. Speeds up to 3x faster than USB 2.0? Sweet!