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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (42915)	1/9/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: AreWeThereYet	Respond to of 58324

Allen >> I believe you're right about USB and storage devices. Maybe Firewire will do the trick. << NO because there is still no plan for integrating firewire into MB chipset. Firewire is more a replacement of SCSI and not a low cost I/O interface like EIDE. EIDE is still the way to go. For 2-3 years we should still see MB has EIDE, ECP, USB (maybe serial port for backward compatibility) as built-in standard I/O. SCSI's price will go down more because the price pressure from EIDE. Seagate and IBM both announced a 7200rpm EIDE drive (Internal DTR achieve 190Mb/sec!!!). Seagate's should be available sometime in March. aC

To: Cogito who wrote (42915)	1/9/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

*OT* >>>Andy - Yes, I believe you're right about USB and storage devices. Maybe Firewire will do the trick. - Allen<<< To Allen and Andy, Allen, You hit on it! I've been investigating IEEE1394 (firewire) as a bus for our purposes. It is, as far as I can tell, the serial bus of the future. It's very fast now at 98 and 196 Mbits/sec (12.25 and 24.5 MBytes/sec). It will become much faster in the future with 400 Mbits/sec coming soon and on-going development to 800 and up to 3.2 Mbits/sec (yes that's 400 MBytes/sec!) being forseen. USB can't come close as it's a single-ended, voltage driven scheme. Firewire is differential, current driven. Firewire is almost as cheap as USB to implement as it is silicon intensive - once developed, the cost of silicon chips drops like a rock. Firewire is now on-board the Sony digital video camcorders and some PCI cards. Apple began the firewire scheme and Mac's can now take digital data directly from Sony's cameras. An interesting factoid - you know that funny little plug in the Nintendo GameBoy that is used to connect two GameBoys together? That's the standard for the IEEE1393 connector. Those who worked the standard decided - if kids can't break that one - it's got to be good! Jeff