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Statica · 04-08-2001, 11:21 AM

Also IR is very sensitive to transient light. An IR-device's performance can be affected by something as the lighting in your room.

Firewire is good too.

My thought is eliminate the bundle of wires, just by eliminating wires totally isnt going to solve it. But if you can cut down from the 40-wire IDE cable to one cable it would make things a whole lot clearer.

Given those choices USB is impractical because the bandwidth is too small, even comparing to IDE vs Firewire-
USB: 12 Mbits/s = ~1.5MB/s
IDE: ~max at 16MB/s
Ultra-ATA: ~max at 33 MB/s
Firewire: ~400Mbits = ~50MB/s

Bluetooth has great potential, but would it ever be fast enough?

How about something like this, just shooting the breeze, hopefully you wont fall off ur chairs laughing.
Something along the lines of a USB controller/hub, have periferal connector hubs, cheap to manufacture.. strewn along different places of the mobo. Say a couple near the 5.25" bays, a few near 3.5" bays ..
All you do is be able to plug the "wire" from the device to the nearest hub. Instead of the conventional system of stringing them on to the appropriate port... simply connect & daisychain to any port.

The last issue I have is with security, unless there is a physical connect, for something as integral as data between the different devices, it is scary when portals for exploits are created.

[Edited by Statica on 04-08-2001 at 12:23 PM]

04-08-2001, 11:21 AM	#5
Statica Premium Member Join Date: Jun 1999 Posts: 9,231	Also IR is very sensitive to transient light. An IR-device's performance can be affected by something as the lighting in your room. Firewire is good too. My thought is eliminate the bundle of wires, just by eliminating wires totally isnt going to solve it. But if you can cut down from the 40-wire IDE cable to one cable it would make things a whole lot clearer. Given those choices USB is impractical because the bandwidth is too small, even comparing to IDE vs Firewire- USB: 12 Mbits/s = ~1.5MB/s IDE: ~max at 16MB/s Ultra-ATA: ~max at 33 MB/s Firewire: ~400Mbits = ~50MB/s Bluetooth has great potential, but would it ever be fast enough? How about something like this, just shooting the breeze, hopefully you wont fall off ur chairs laughing. Something along the lines of a USB controller/hub, have periferal connector hubs, cheap to manufacture.. strewn along different places of the mobo. Say a couple near the 5.25" bays, a few near 3.5" bays .. All you do is be able to plug the "wire" from the device to the nearest hub. Instead of the conventional system of stringing them on to the appropriate port... simply connect & daisychain to any port. The last issue I have is with security, unless there is a physical connect, for something as integral as data between the different devices, it is scary when portals for exploits are created. [Edited by Statica on 04-08-2001 at 12:23 PM]