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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
Why is there not a Firewire based flash drive yet?
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I am by no means an expert in this field, but I can think of three plausible reasons:
a) Cost. I assume there's a reason that
everything uses USB these days, while FireWire is left more for higherish-end stuff.
b) Connectors. My iBook has a six-pin FireWire connection. The Dell laptop I owned freshman year had a four-pin connection. To get my 4G iPod (back when they supported FireWire connections) to connect to my Dell, I would've had to buy an adapter (and we all know what adapters cost: far, far, far too much). Folks don't want to mess with that.
c) Penetration. Every computer shipped in the last decade or so has some kind of USB port on it. Relatively few, however, have FireWire ports of either flavor. All the portable drive speed in the world won't help if you can't get it to connect to the computer.