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External HD's/ABS - - - Firewire v. USB
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| ShadoWolf |
| I'm thinking about getting an external harddrive. Should I consider an Automatic Backup System device or just a regular external harddrive? Also, would you recommend Firewire or USD 2.0 or USB 1.0? |
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| arj1o1 |
if you want to have some speed you can choose between usb 2.0 and firewire
if you have firewire on your computer and you're gonna use it only @ your computer you can choose firewire
if you have usb 2.0 choose USB 2.0 more people have this so you could take the harddisk to somebody and connect it |
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| ShadoWolf |
| Any suggestions on brands? I've seen decent-looking Iomega, Western Digital, and generic products. |
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| DjJade |
| i have a maxtor and it works pretty well. and it was relatively cheap. usb2.0 is just as fast as firewire. i got usb 2.0 becuase i can plug it into any other ocmputer with usb1.0 and it will work. more people have usb than firewire so ... yeah |
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| jdat |
the Addonics ones are pretty decent!
The company where I work has about a dozen of these around the building and none of them ever failed apart from one that had a faulty ventilator
The other big bulky cases from other brands have pretty often sucked .... to much space , to heavy, unreliable for hardcore usage .
you have to understand that were I work hard drive failures are not uncomon cause the stuff gets severily put to the test running 24 7 with a gigabit network and so on .......
I give thumbs up for Addonics casings! |
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| kirbtastic |
| i love iomega externals...i constantly use mine to bring work back and forth to my printers and to clinets of mine...i drop it all the time..it really takes a beatin |
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