[ltp] In search of the perfect laptop combination

[Tod Harter]

Or USB 2.0. FW is nice, but you usually have to have a card to do it. USB 2.0 
is built-in, and as a bonus your drive will fall back to USB 1.x speeds on 
older systems. Otherwise the 2 buses are pretty much interchangeable.

On Friday 18 July 2003 12:22 pm, Rob Mayoff wrote:
> +---------- On Jul 18, Bret Comstock Waldow said:
> | A suggestion.  Whatever you buy, also buy another identical HD and a
> | carrier to mount it in the bay (most machines have removeable bays these
> | days).
>
> A 3.5" hard drive in a firewire enclosure is generally cheaper per byte,
> and hot-pluggable. (Assuming firewire doesn't crash your system. I've
> been using it quite successfully.)

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