Urbane Tiger wrote:
$179 is a good price for a 500GB Western Digital external hard disk, and being available at the post office means it is widely available (unlike lots of cheap stuff, just ask anyone outside of metro areas). One would prefer it come with the far superior Firewire interface, but it comes with the vastly inferior USB interface. I would guess fewer than 10% of new desktop systems have a Firewire (IEEE1394) socket whereas 99.5% have several USB sockets. This was illustration of the "best" is not necessarily the winner. It was also a way of letting folks know that the Aussie post office is a place where bargains are often to be had.
Define "best". USB has the advantage that it can be used with so many other devices. I don't recall ever seeing a firewire mouse, printer or keyboard.
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