My back up drive is a firewire drive. What is nice with the firewire
drive is that you can boot from it in an emergency with no problems.
The USB is fine for backing up files, but if you want to make a bootable
clone of your hard drive I recommend using a Firewire drive. If you
have a harddrive laying around, maybe you could get a Firewire
enclosure for it. I never used one, but I've seen them advertised on
the internet for $20 or $30.
Steve
gerald wrote:
bought wife an iMac last month. bought a copy of 10.5 for her to load. she
wants to clone her drive with the 10.4.X on it before install of 10.5.
there is a recommendation of using an external firewire drive instead of an
external USB drive. I have a couple USB drives around, but do not have a
firewire around. is it really better or necessary to use firewire?
will the 2.4ghz 24" support a second internal sata drive? is the cable or connection for support already in the machine?
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