This actually sucks for me because I run my Blu-ray burner, old DV equipment, and a multitude of hard drives off of FireWire. Replacing the burner enclosure and drive enclosures with Thunderbolt would be possible, but expensive. The DV stuff has no modern replacement.
FireWire drives have always felt as if they had lower overhead and faster real world transfer rates. That and being able to daisy chain devices meant I never ran out of ports or needed hubs (just adapters).
My current setup uses a Thunderbolt 3 dock with FireWire built in, but (amazingly) I’ve gone all the way from Thunderbolt 3 to FireWire 400 with cable adapters (Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 to FireWire 800 to FireWire 400). The last step now just mechanical.
I think I have the last Thunderbolt 3 dock that still had FireWire and figured I could keep going for as long as I wanted.
This actually sucks for me because I run my Blu-ray burner, old DV equipment, and a multitude of hard drives off of FireWire. Replacing the burner enclosure and drive enclosures with Thunderbolt would be possible, but expensive. The DV stuff has no modern replacement.
FireWire drives have always felt as if they had lower overhead and faster real world transfer rates. That and being able to daisy chain devices meant I never ran out of ports or needed hubs (just adapters).
My current setup uses a Thunderbolt 3 dock with FireWire built in, but (amazingly) I’ve gone all the way from Thunderbolt 3 to FireWire 400 with cable adapters (Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 to FireWire 800 to FireWire 400). The last step now just mechanical.
I think I have the last Thunderbolt 3 dock that still had FireWire and figured I could keep going for as long as I wanted.