usb

Recently I had someone ask me about getting a USB Flash drive working so they could copy some sort of video file to it. Sounds simple enough, however after awhile it seems like one might consider the possibility that when a drive is not allowing data to be transfered to it, then it may be [...]

Gnomie Elie Hassan writes:
To the best of my knowledge, FireWire 800 is capable of 800 mbp/s, which is twice as fast as USB 2.0. If this is the case, why is it such an underutilized specification? I can understand that hardware manufacturers want to make their hardware compatible with as many computers as possible, so [...]

Today we have a reader asking a question that I simply cannot think of a good answer to:
I am retired and have an aging parent who needs help so am considering spending up to 50% of my time in a home in the parent’s city/state. I am considering dropping my home broadband cable internet [...]