Hosa FIW-99-115 FireWire 800 Cable 9-Pin - Same 15 Feet

we're all more than familiar with the term usb whether it's for our cameras phones or computers the three-letter acronym has become about as widespread as the internet itself but there was once a rival to usb developed by some of the world's biggest tech firms including apple that almost succeeded in becoming the go-to data transfer system so why did firewire fail and what stopped it from becoming the way we charge our phones and laptops today here's how it happened firewire was set to be the successor to the small computer system interface known as scuzzy as the industry-wide standard of port used to transfer data and firewire was better than scuzzy in just about every way with a transfer speed of 400 megabits per second versus scuzzy's 80 megabits and no annoying switches or terminators that needed to be turned on every time you use it firewire ports often came in pairs to allow users