On 18 Feb 2005 05:27:17 -0800, "Paul" wrote:

Thanks for all your advice. I was thinking of trying a 160GB Maxtor
7000 "One Touch" 7200rpm USB2 HDD with 8mb cache, 9.3ms access time and
a sustained transfer rate USB 2.0 - 34 MB/sec selling at £92.81 inc
vat. Does anyone have any opinions re this choice?

I'm gonna reiterate the suggestion I make for all posts along these
lines: take a look at the LaCie triple interface drives. They have
USB2.0, Firewire 400 & Firewire 800, in a pretty compact package.

I use one at work to back up servers and workstations, and they work
beautifully.

It also gives you the added benefit of not being able to try out
different transfer protocols without trying out different drives. :-)


jtougas

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