High Performance Universal I/O with Data Rates up to and exceeding 400Mbps, designed around Plug and Play and Hot Swap technologies, the IEEE 1394 port is used to handle Bandwidth intensive fast serial devices, such as Digital Video Camcorders, High Resolution Digital Cameras, HDTV, Set-Top Boxes, Hard Disks, DVD-ROM Drives, Printers and Scanners. FireWire also supports compressed/uncompressed Video support. The IEEE 1394 – 1995 Standard provides for half-duplex data transmission at 100, 200 and 400 Mbps. FireWire also supports compressed/ uncompressed Video support. The IEEE 1394 – 1995 Standard provides for half-duplex data transmission at 100, 200 and 400 Mbps.

IEEE 1394 FireWire allows peripherals to be added or disconnected from a computer without the need to reboot.