Re: wifi usb adaptor

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from Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:42:55 +0100, Johnny B Good
<jcs.computers***@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd agree that, in general (and in common with firewire), USB is still
a toy interface with absolutely no pedigree whatsoever, never to be
entrusted with 'mission critical' devices (such as keyboards,
networking, and external backup drives, and so on).

I take exception to your mention of keyboards. USB for keyboards may
be a poor idea, but all current alternatives are worse.

What "current" alternatives are there (apart from PS/2)?


Firewire doesn't seem to have as many problems for storage as USB
does, but that might just be due to lower absolute count of units.

IME, firewire is just as capable of 'making the FS become invisible' as
USB is :-(which is why I now use EXT2 on my large external USB/Firewire
drives instead of NTFS).

When I _was_ using NTFS, firewire 400 was around 20% faster than USB2,
but since using EXT2 FS, it seems to be the other way round. There is a
slight drop in speed compared to NTFS over USB2 but a significant drop
over firewire. Since firewire proved to be no more reliable than USB2,
I've stuck with USB.

EXT2 doesn't completely cure the weirdness of firewire or USB but at
least I can repair the FS in a little over half an hour with the free
FSCK utility rather than buy one that needs a 7 hour scan followed by
maybe another 7 hours worth copying to another drive I might not
actually have to hand (there are no free NTFS repair solutions that
actually do anything worthwhile).

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