1 Jul
2007
1 Jul
'07
10:47 p.m.
To be fair, I think the concept of daisy-chaining was around long before Firewire. I remember it with SCSI interfaces, for example.
We used to do it with serial cables... and parallel-port-based "Laplink" cables (thank you Traveling Software...).
And I further take issue with the notion that crowded, unkempt hard drives slow down a system.
They do, but fragmentation is no longer usually the reason. Dozens or hundreds of abandoned, outdated, unused configuration files or registry entries often are.... --e