[ale] USB external HDD

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Jun 1 07:20:39 EDT 2005


H. Adrin Story wrote:
>  From what I have seen most if not all 3.5" drive USB device have 
> external  Power Supplies. And the 2.5" can us power from the USB or you 
> can plug them in. I would think it would eat a laptop battery alive.
> 
> I thought the same thing about the laptop drives being more mobile. But 
> I have no proof.
> 
> Interesting to note to is that some say they are daisy chainable.  I 
> would think though going this far on USB would be way to slow unless you 
> are just doing off-line backups while you are asleep.

I don't think the usb devices can be daisy chained, only the firewire. 
To daisy chain, you'd have to have multiple usb inputs on the device. 
I've never seen such.  My maxtor does have two firewire ports and one usb.

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Until later, Geoffrey



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