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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