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Maxtor equips OneTouch drive with FireWire 800 interface
June 15, 2005 – 6:28 PM
Maxtor announced a new version of its OneTouch II external backup harddrive: The new drive received a FireWire 800 interface that allows data to travel at a speed of up to delivers up to 800 Mbit per second.
1394 Trade Association Announces FireWire 3200
December 17, 2007 – 11:38 AM
A new proposal to bring 4x faster speeds over FireWire 800 is approaching the final ratification phase. Beginning in February, 2008, a 3.2 Gbps FireWire could be standard fare for future machines, using the same cables and connectors.
First USB 3.0 Demo Possibly at IDF Next Week
August 13, 2008 – 3:40 PM in INTEL
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today sent out a press release stating that its "Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB" is now available.
IEEE Approves 3.2 Gb/s IEEE 1394 High-speed Serial Bus Specification
July 29, 2008 – 3:50 PM
Piscataway (NJ) - IEEE 1394, better known under the brand names of Firewire and i.Link, will get a speed bump before the end of the year: The IEEE has approved the new IEEE 1394-2008 specification that provides support for a bandwidth of up to 3.2 Gb/s.

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Drivers Improve WindowsXP Service Pack 2 FireWire
August 23, 2004 – 1:01 PM
IEEE1394 b , the successor standard to 1394 a , also known as FireWire or i.Link, promises a bandwidth of 800 MBit/s. Microsoft, however, throws a spanner in the works by slowing the bus speed down to 100 MBit/s. Can drivers from Unibrain and OrangeWare put things right?
Terratec's Aureon 7.1 FireWire Attempts Plug-and-Play with Pro Sound Card Performance
June 21, 2004 – 1:00 PM
Terratec says its Aureon 7.1 FireWire offers a plug-and-play sound card setup via an external FireWire connection. So while you can forget about your screwdriver and worrying about whether or not you have the right PC slot, THG investigates Terratec's easy-setup and performance claims.
Go External: FireWire 800
April 2, 2004 – 1:00 PM
USB 2.0 is far from good enough for high-speed data transfer applications. Vendors are now pushing FireWire 800 to the plate for applications such as high-speed hard disk backup. We look at FireWire's robustness, its performance as a LAN network protocol and its data-transfer future.
The Mobile Storage Giant: A FireWire Hard Drive From Western Digital
April 26, 2002 – 1:07 PM
The ever-increasing hard drive capacities appear to be coming to a halt, but the manufacturers never rest: Western Digital offers its latest top-of-the-line 120 GB model in a portable version with a FireWire interface. How does this model compare to desktop drives?
Making Gigabytes mobile: Firewire Harddrive from Western Digital
August 4, 2000 – 1:03 PM
Western Digital has become a supporter of Firewire by supplying external storage solutions as well as PCI and PC-Card adapters. We took a look at their 20 GByte drive.