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Old 24th-April-2006, 06:37 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Re: External Hard drives

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Originally Posted by jezzyjj
Just to make things more complicated there are two types of fire wire connection, big and small to get really technical.
Your pic shows the big one, but the small one found on laptops/camera is a square hole about the third of the size of a USB socket and a little indent to make sure cable connector is in the right way.
Correction. There are two types of firewire and three types of plug (interface) you've forgotten about firewire 800 - this is faster than the standard firewire 400 - and from my experience with graphics work - well worth the investment (I run it with a Apple G5 powermac).

I've been using externals for years (seagate, micronet and iomega) and have settled on LaCie as a really reliable brand... I've two @ 160Gb FW 400 Blue and 500Gb FW400/800.

Yes to USB 2.0 but it's soooooo slow!
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