Thats one thing I always liked about Mac laptops a while back. They have full 6 pin powered firewire, and it was more then enough to power a hard drive. Where as USB enclosures have 2 USB plugs, because if a port only offers the normal spec for power, it's usually not enough to spin a drive up.
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Too bad standard PSUs don't have an external 12v outlet for power-hungry peripherals.
Thats one thing I always liked about Mac laptops a while back. They have full 6 pin powered firewire, and it was more then enough to power a hard drive. Where as USB enclosures have 2 USB plugs, because if a port only offers the normal spec for power, it's usually not enough to spin a drive up.