3200 Firewire

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... i can't remember if i posted this somewhere or not... but i intended to.

Found this a few days ago... regardless of it Being Apple or PC, this is pretty cool...

1600Mbps Firewire controllers being tested at Apple: The same technology leap that enabled Firewire 800 (100MB/s) is designed to later scale to 1600 and even 3200Mbps (200 and 400MB/s, respectively), and Apple is already testing the next phase of that progression. A prototype Xserve G5 with dual 2.4GHz G5 processors, described in recent reports, is being used as a testbed for a number of next-generation controller chipsets and other technologies for Apple's 2004 high-end hardware lineup.

The Firewire 1600 controller is one of only a handful sent out by one of Apple's major chipset suppliers for testing to its major customers, and has so far performed wonderfully. Although very few compatible devices are available for testing, one report details testing of a four-drive RAID (7200RPM, 8MB cache per drive) which performed only marginally better than a two-drive RAID under Firewire 800, but offered more than 70% better performance vs. the two-drive RAID using the FW1600 system. A native HDTV signal was carried losslessly over the connection as well, and some speculation has apparently been made at Apple whether a future version of ADC could be based on the more flexible FW1600/3200 standards rather than DVI....

Although roll-out of 1600Mbps and faster Firewire is largely dependent on the IEE1394 industry working group's progress in finalizing the standard and getting its members to adopt the technology, Apple is expected to once again be at the forefront of adoption and could ship a FW1600-based system as soon as mid-2004. More information will be available to us in December, when Apple will finalize its Xserve G5 design and is expected to receive a new crop of updated FW1600 controllers for testing in second-generation PowerMac G5s/Xstations.

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[ytoledano]

Cool indeed, but in the same way that Dual-Xion or Athlon FX which I would never own are cool.
What I liked is how the test prove that the theoretical bandwidth isn't so theoretical: If the dual RAID could transfer at 90MB/s and the quad RAID 180 than going from Firewire 800 to 1600 really lifted the 100MB/s limit there was...
All is good, though I don't know how many people want a mobile quad RAID to take around with them and connect it using Firewire 1600 that would be a several different machines... Maybe 1, so congrats to him!

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[cdpage]

yea i know what you mean, but whos to say that it would be used for portabel devices... I kjnow thats what 400 was intended for, and 800, but It could be used for etherNet too no?...I dunno...

Besides...Its one bottle neck we won't have to worry about for a few years.



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