Many of us did "real work" with USB 2 and USB 1 external drives. Fast is nice, but it's not essential.
Paul via phone > On Dec 9, 2016, at 7:09 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you're going to be using the external HD for any real time work, you're > going to need USB 3.0. The way to tell, if they followed convention, the USB > 2.0 ports are white the 3.0 are blue. > >> On 12/9/2016 4:51 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: >> My computer is an HP 8000 PC with 4g ram and 1tb hard drive... got it >> refurbished without a lot of documentation -- I don't know if my USB ports >> are 2 or 3 >> >> Does it matter? The Sea-gate 2t is $89 at my Staples and I have a $16 >> coupon from them... Ijust want to backup everything on to it.. I only >> have200GB of hard drive free on the internal - need to prune but though it >> would be nice to backup first... >> >> ann >> >> >>> On 12/9/2016 2:19 PM, John wrote: >>> That's pretty good. >>> >>> I just checked the exchange rate & $99 CAD is $75 USD, so that's about >>> $15 USD cheaper than Staples is selling them here in the states. >>> >>>> On 12/9/2016 7:17 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:36 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Dave - how much is the 2tb at Stapleswhere you are? >>>> >>>> Local store has them for $99 on sale >>>>> >>>>> ann >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 12/8/2016 10:38 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I have decided, now that i have the time, to transfer all of my CD and >>>>>> DVD back up photo disks to an external HD, I need a new one anyway and >>>>>> Staples has a nice Seagate 2tb on sale. I also have a number of 32 gig >>>>>> thumb drives i thought might also do the trick. Just curious would the >>>>>> transfer rate be better from the CD player to externals as opposed to >>>>>> thumb drives.? >>>>>> >>>>>> Dave >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > There is not enough Coffee in Columbia to make me a morning person. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
