LogFAQs > #973698314

I had exactly one external device for it, as it was the port of choice for Macs in about 2003-05. Even then not many people heard of it. So I want to say it went the way of certain forms of media storage, such as that one that tried to compete with Blu-Ray roughly about the same time. Firewire was hella slow, the external harddrive for it was loud, and I recall devices for it sometimes needed their own power supply like you were plugging in a gaming console versus the USB devices of the same purpose that needed no such power requirement.

Seriously, Firewire is basically a failure, and should have been dropped altogether a couple decades ago.