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Recovery Glossary > Firewire
Firewire is a high-speed connection standard for connecting external
devices for a computer. Firewire permits high-speed data downloading from
a digital camera. Also known as I. Link or IEEE 1394, firewire is a serial
bus interface standard. It offers data transfer for video, audio and storage
applications through a universal input/output interface.
Since firewire is faster than USB connections, it is more popularly used
with Windows application. Developed by Apple Computer and Texas Instruments,
firewire has a transfer speed of 400 Mbps and are mostly used with multimedia
peripherals like digital cameras, high speed devices like hard disk drive,
printers, DVD burners and many others.
Related:
IPI (Intelligent
Peripheral Interface)
Interface
External Hard Drives
EIDE
IDE
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