Why 2 firewire port and only 1 USB

[kycz101]

On External hard drives... How come there's 1 USB port and 2 firewire ports at the back of it. I own Maxtor One Touch and some decent low end hard drive enclosure and I see just the same available ports.

Out of curiosity, I tried hooking up 2 firewire cables to a PC --No effect. Hooked up 2 cables on two different PCs, still no effect.

Could somebody tell me what are they for? Who would benefit on this? Please. answer this question that I have been googling for months and still not get any idea. Thanks.

[Atari6502]

The second firewire port is for chaining another firewire device.

Usb's just use a hub.

[kycz101]

Why would you do that for? Can you hook up another hard drive? What's the benefit out of it?

[Sparda]

So you have more space perhaps?

[stingwray]

Aye, its for chaining mainly like what you used to do with Parrallel devices.

Its main reason why you only have a couple of ports on computers usually as well.

[mazmac24]

Its called Triple Interface (2 x FireWire 800, 1 x FireWire 400 and 1 x USB 2.0 ports) One firewire port is faster I guess, for use with faster ports...