[Cadaver]

I'm wanting to build a small, portable, mirrored RAID for critical data (yes, I know, "critical" and "portable" don't typically go together in the same sentence...).

I thinking about buying two 2.5" 7200rpm 60GB notebook drives, putting each in to a small pocket/portable case, and daisy chaining the two together. Speed is desirable but not super critical (since they'll be driven off a single FW channel); data integrity is.

Would a single FireWire 400 port provide enough power for both drives, or would I be stuck using an external power brick connected to one of the drives?

Anyone tried powering two drives off one FW 400 channel?

[drive-thru]

Yeah I'm doing it right now, got 2x30GB Smartdisk FireLite drives (FW400) plugged into my iBook, even made a tiny 3inch firwire cable to run between the two, instead of having a 2 foot long cable bunched up on my desk.