![]() That screams reliable to me.Īs far as points of failure, there's no additional hub/switch in between the devices, so you have a Thunderbolt controller on each device, two cables, and two ports. This means that connectivity between nodes should never fail due to the failure of a node. I don't have a lot of experience with USB4/Thunderbolt networking, but as far as ring network principals go, when you have a network with only 3 nodes, a ring topology is also a fully connected topology. I think reliability is a great metric to evaluate this on. Only when it switched to USB and supporting PCs did the iPod really take off. Apple didn't have the market sahre back then to enforce their own less popular standard. ![]() ![]() There was no way the iPod would have been remotely as successful had it stayed on firewire. Only the first gen iPod had firewire before switching to USB, and even then, what was the point of Firewire 400 on it when the tiny and slow mechanical HDD on it was the real bottleneck. >Completely loading a 5 Gig iPod with music over that first version of Firewire still took a few minutes. Just like VHS over Betamax, USB won because it was cheaper and more convenient despite technically inferior to firewire and consumer tewch at the time was a race to the bottom in terms of price. Wherever you went, whoever you met, you were way more likely to find a USB or ethernet port to hook up for a fast transfer rather than Firewire.Īt least in my country at the time, maybe you lived in Cupertino/Palo Alto where evryone had iMacs and firewire. Yes and? At what price points? What was the adoption rate? How many mainstream PCs and peripherals worldwide had it? >Even the first version of Firewire was four times as fast as that.
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