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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