Get ready for S3200 FireWire!

3.2 GIGABIT FireWire coming down the pike soon-- over your friendly FW 800 conections. Whoo hoo! The S3200 specification is expected to be ratified by early February. You heard it hear first.

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Actually, no I didn't Loren... I heard it HERE first:

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When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

i heard it here first, but appreciate the link!

thanks guys.

this is pretty interesting news
nick

I heard it from a Shaman while trekking in an unexplored jungle in NW Borneo, 6 months ago. What a geek that guy was.

Michael Horton
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Considering that everyone is just cutting and pasting the release from the 1394 group, it doesn't really matter where you heard it first, it's all the same words in exactly the same order.

What we need is some analysis of what it means as far as getting drives with interfaces that can handle the 3.2Gigabits and cards that can talk to the drives. I'd like to see that bandwidth in some i/o boxes as well.

ak
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>>speeds reaching nearly 400 megabytes per second.<<

>>The new speed uses the cables and connectors already deployed for FireWire 800 products<<

Colour me happy!

Mike, are you sure that Shaman wasn't just Andrew Kines in disguise?



Andy

It will be cheaper for manufacturers to roll out new products because the plugs and chipboard ergonomics will be the same but the chips that drive the plugs will be new, so we're in for a round of, if the speeds are as advertised, making sure all the drives on the S3200 bus are S3200 capable as it will probably dumb itself down to FW800 if you mix flavours.

With speeds like that on one bus, we'll probably be seeing more simple closed RAID 0 boxes to get the drives to match the bus speed and maintain the portability that makes Firewire drives so practical in some workflows. Or maybe there is room in the spec for more robust native hardware RAIDs using S3200. Should be fun.

Somewhat facetiously you could market this as a "green" development as you get to maintain your investment in FW800 cables and the factories don't have to retool for a whole new manufacturing process.
Bring it on..

ak
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Mike, are you sure that Shaman wasn't just Andrew Kines in disguise?

I an not sure what you mean Andy, no Geek am I. Merely solid coolness and suave hip-i-tude all round.
However, fellow Shamen might enjoy this.





ak
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I'll be happier when we see 4 gb fibre channel speeds on X-Raids!

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[The new speed uses the cables and connectors already deployed for FireWire 800 products]

Probably the most sensible thing they could do.

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Way cool, but too bad they didn't do something to improve the connections. What the world needs now is an industrial strength XLR Audio type FW connector for cameras, laptops, firestores and other mobile devices.


Clay

Time for Apple to make the new MacPros with a couple of separate FW buses then... a FW800/400 and a separate S3200

And slightly OT: include the new ATI Radeon? HD 3800 or Nvidia 8800 series in them too!

Are there any 4K cards on the market? I guess Red will be developing a monitor to view Red 4K soon...



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Hi All

I read about the 3.2 gig fire wire about 3 years ago in a Financial Magazine--
Fallow the money -

From what I remember at the time 3.2 gig Firewire was the last one in the
series that they had planed --

From what I remember there is 5 flavors of Firewire
the rest being lower than the 3.2 gig --

Here a link to a new artical about it - -Jay --

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140609-c,ieee1394firewire/article.html

Whatever happened to the plans for Wireless Firewire?



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I guess it'd be called FireWireless...



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There was mention of Firewire at 1.6 and 3.2 Gbps when FW800 was released back in.... was it 2003?

A couple of years ago I would have been delighted with the news. But I have a dual port eSATA expresscard in my MBP right now, that I got for $60. And it flies. And essentially anything you could use FW3200 for would surely use an eSATA to FW3200 bridge, right? So, I don't know if it's that important....

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