what is a fire cable on a desktop computer?

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what is a fire cable on a desktop computer?

It is a high speed background port typically use for data intensive applications similar to video connections to camcorders. It's official designation is IEEE 1394.



USB 2.0 information rates are high satisfactory now to compete next to firewire.



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It is a port that some older video cameras used.
Just another type of interface resembling USB but usually used for digital camera's, video equipment, etc.
Firewire's a type of connection, approaching USB but a different shape, and faster.
Firewire is a transfer standard.



USB is another verbs standard. (Which you have probably hear of)



USB Transfer Rate (1.0/1.1) 12Mbps(Fast)/1.5Mbps(Slow)

-- NOTE: This is MegaBITS per second, not MegaBYTES. (megabyes would be around 8 times slower)



USB Transfer Rate (2.0) 480Mbps also backward comptable to USB 1.0/1.1





Firewire(800) 800Mbps. (almost twice as speedily as USB2.0)





In short, the result is the same: background gets transferred. Firewire does it faster. If you don't own USB2.0 ports - it does it much faster. (67 times faster than USB -- which means, every minute you keep on for it to transfer by plugging something into Firewire(800) you spend 67 minutes waiting for it on USB1.0)



The "Something" is usually video cameras, but can without doubt be any other device.