kycz101 Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 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. Quote
Atari6502 Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 The second firewire port is for chaining another firewire device. Usb's just use a hub. Quote
kycz101 Posted October 18, 2006 Author Posted October 18, 2006 Why would you do that for? Can you hook up another hard drive? What's the benefit out of it? Quote
stingwray Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 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. Quote
mazmac24 Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 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... Quote
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