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dale - 19 Aug 2005 21:48 GMT

Hi,

I am thinking of getting a second external hard drive for my much loved G5
tower running 10.3.9. with 1.5 GB ram

I already have a Lacie Firewire drive 120 GB which is been very good , no
probs there.

I have seen USB2 external drives for less than A$200 and was wondering
should I buy one of those or stick with Firewire?

The G5 has all the ports etc.

Any help between the 2 interfaces?

Thanks

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Jason - 20 Aug 2005 03:38 GMT

> Hi,
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> Any help between the 2 interfaces?

USB2 uses more CPU than firewire, so stick to firewire.

www.epowermac.com.au have the excellent Pleaides firewire cases, I've bought 2
from them. I got my hdds from umart. Had a great deal of success with Western Digital
and Seagate.

250GB hdds are quite cheap now.

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Rock Jeby - 20 Aug 2005 09:15 GMT

>>Hi,
>>
>>I am thinking of getting a second external hard drive for my much loved G5
>>tower running 10.3.9. with 1.5 GB ram

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> USB2 uses more CPU than firewire, so stick to firewire.
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> 250GB hdds are quite cheap now.

You can get external combo cases for as little as $65 now:

http://www.atcomputer.com.au/subcat.php?cid=116

I bought one for my external DVD-R and it works fine, no problems at all.

Good luck.

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