Re: pcmcia/cardbus vs. firewire

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Well, Rainer sent these figures out as a result of a thread we had on this:

5. USB 1.x 12Mbps = 1.5MBps
4. FW400      400Mbps =  50MBps
3. USB 2.0      480Mbps =  60MBps
2. FW800      800Mbps = 100MBps
1. PCI/PCMCIA    1.1Gbps = 133MBps

If you are using FW800, then it appears cardbus will not get you that much 
more speed. But more importantly, Per or Andy?
did the math to suggest that all this speed will not necessarily get your 
better peformance, given the bandwidth requirements of
mulit-tracking.

Also, it may be the case that audio companies just haven't invested that 
much in cardbus solutions (except for Indigo and RME, a few others),
so there are performance issues not related to speed. I've read a few of 
them on some audio lists.

Finally, PCMCIA evolved to Cardbus (CardBus are PCMCIA 5.0 or later (JEIDA 
4.2 or later) 32-bit PCMCIA devices, introduced in 1995) and now we have 
ExpressCard.  Interesting article here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard

The ExpressCard has a maximum throughput of 2.5 Gbit/s, versus CardBus's 
shared 1066 Mbit/s bandwidth.

Kris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Raul Bonell
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:33 AM
Subject: OT: pcmcia/cardbus vs. firewire


hi there,

one question.

why if (relating other talks here before) cardbus is faster than firewire, 
people still wanting to go firewire. do macs have cardbus slots? due to 
the 
price when getting the adapter and interface?

i'm suposing here pcmcia=cardbus. am i wrong?

well, not one question at all... ;-)

thanks in advance,
raul.

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