This is why I like FireWire so much.
Try powering an external hard drive enclosure with two 7200 RPM hard drives with hardware RAID1 and an enclosure fan from a single USB cable and see how far you get. If you have to carry around an external storage device, having to use only one cable, or worse, look for a power socket for it is a big boon.
Oh – and it’s fast.
Since I am on the topic, I can recommend the G-RAID Mini. The unit is very well built, has interfaces for USB, FW400, FW800 and eSATA. As I mentioned, it supports RAID1 in hardware as well as RAID0.
It also comes with a simple but very practical carrying case.
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