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Subject: [OM] Re: Yes, he is finally installing a back up drive and has two questi...
From: Thomas Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:27:58 +0100

On 4Jan , 2007, at 11:25 AM, swisspace wrote:

> I have generally found firewire connectors robust, however whilst  
> being
> lazy and plugging in my portable drive into the external hard disk I
> must have got the plug upside down and pop!  no more FW on my portable
> drive, so I bought a new one.
>

Uhh...condolences.

> I did some tests between FW and USB and I prefer FW for external  
> drives.
>
> One point that hasn't been mentioned is that with FW you can daisy  
> chain
> devices.
>

Actually, the USB bus was designed for daisy-chaining too - up to 127  
devices, even. It's just that manufacturers of modern hardware think  
more about profits than about functionality, and thus adds only a  
single USB port to their products since that's an excellent way of  
saving a cent or two....apparently

Thomas

> IanW
>
> Thomas Clausen wrote:
>>
>> On 4Jan , 2007, at 4:24 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> One thing we can be sure of.  It won't be the PC connector for  
>>> flash.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>> Thomas Clausen wrote:
>>>   I am still eagerly awaiting the day when a real
>>>> robust standard plug for external connectivity emerges.....
>>
>>
>> Chuck,
>>
>> You never cease to surprise me with ways of  getting threads back on-
>> topic... ;)
>>
>>
>>
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