Firewire is a hostless technology. That means if you want to transfer some data from a digital camera directly to a firewire backup unit, you can.<P>USB 2.0 still requires a host. That means you need ...
I haven't had an external drive since I stopped using my SCSI tower about five years ago. Since then I've tolerated the acceptable speeds of IDE for the tradeoff in large amounts of storage. As my box ...