From: Dale Goodvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I want to buy an external hard drive for my Imac (flat panel, 15",
700,OSX 10.8).
Since I don't have USB 2.0, can I still purchase a hard drive with a
USB 2.0 Interface??
Well, you CAN ... but you really don't want to, since it will operate
at USB 1.1 speed and that will be an unpleasant (and unbootable)
experience.
You've got perfectly good Firewire plugs on that machine, why not
simply buy a drive (or an enclosure) that uses FW instead? Yes it's
slightly more, but it works.
Better still, find a nice enclosure (hint: pcmicrostore.com) that has
both USB2 and FW, then find a nice inexpensive drive (hint:
newegg.com) and put them together yourself. It's easy and could save
you quite a bundle.
_Chas_
FL-MUG: central Florida's Macintosh User Group.
Meetings: second Thursday of the month, 6-9pm,
at the Orlando Science Center.
http://www.flmug.org
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