IO Data Device has come up with another hum-dinger. If you were to put an enormous hard drive inside a USB 2.0/FireWire casing, give it some blue LEDs, and add a USB port, you’d end up with the 400GB ...

Apple Computer has almost single-handedly succeeded in turning USB into an accepted interface standard. Sony, Apple, and others are currently making FireWire into the industry standard for multimedia.

Sales of peripherals could get a boost this year as the two primary technologies for connecting external devices to PCs get turbocharged. PC makers in recent months have begun installing a high-speed ...

PC Magazine has posted an extensive comparison of FireWire and USB 2.0, two peripheral connectivity technologies vying for the attention of PC users. The results are ...

I haven't had an external drive since I stopped using my SCSI tower about five years ago. Since then I've tolerated the acceptable speeds of IDE for the tradeoff in large amounts of storage. As my box ...

Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Here's why it will make eSATA and FireWire obsolete. When USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market ...

Microsoft will not support a budding peripheral-connection standard in its forthcoming Windows XP operating system, instead favoring a technology developed by Apple Computer. The Redmond, Wash.-based ...

Western Digital Corp. on Monday announced availability of its external FireWire/USB 2.0 combo hard drives, with a 7,200-RPM Western Digital Caviar hard drive inside and with available capacities of ...

Apple's new MacBook and MacBook Pro models contain more innovation than just their case design, graphics, and the improved accessibility of their internals. Here's a look at other details related to ...

Does anybody have any recommendations for PC drive-bay kits for front-mounted USB or Firewire ports? (... preferably 3.5" and make use of spare internal connectors.)<P>I'm really surprised that these ...

Various FireWire and USB devices can cause indefinite stalls in the Mac OS X startup routine when connected prior to or during the the boot process. In many cases the stalls can be obviated by simply ...

Apparently, Microsoft is throwing its support behind FireWire rather than USB 2.0. The company plans to support FireWire in its upcoming Windows XP operating system, according to a CNET story.