How can FireWire be superior to eSata? I thought eSata made your external essentially the same as one installed inside the case.
----- Original Message ---- From: Reid Katan <ka...@his.com> To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Wed, December 2, 2009 1:12:35 AM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] [portable] ntebook hard drives Quoting b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es>: > FireWire is far superior to USB and eSATA, but if you don't know about > it or don't have FW peripherals or video cameras, you won't demand the > best and will be stuck with the usual L.C.D. if Apple decides to > discontinue FW in the future. The one advantage I've noticed for FireWire is that, on my iBook, it spun down the drive after a certain time of inactivity. I never noticed that (with the same drive) on my Windows machines with USB. I don't know if it's an OS or FW/USB thing or what, but it sure would be nice to have them spin down if I'm not using them for a while. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
