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Subject: [OM] Re: Yes, he is finally installing a back up drive and has two questi...
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:39:19 -0500
A plug that can be plugged in upside down and thus short out and kill 
the device has another form of lack of robustness.

Chuck Norcutt


Thomas Clausen wrote:
> 
> 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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