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reaperducer • yesterday at 11:22 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Also dropped support for FireWire drives, as I just found out the hard way.

Well, I guess I can finally throw out all those FireWire cables I have "just in case."

Fortunately, my FireWire drives also support other interfaces, though far more slowly.


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mahboi • today at 6:34 AM

It's kinda wild how long external HDDs, not even SSDs, were bottlenecking themselves on USB 2. I don't get why they didn't just use eSATA.