dippydipper
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what do I need to beware of if I am buying a cheap usb hard drive to work on between 2 XP OS machines. Are there going to be grief for me doing this.
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advice needed on buying cheap usb hard drive
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There is always the potential for grief with usb. Look thoroughly through this site to see if any patches are needed for the XP machines:
Just remember USB2 is around 40X faster than USB1, the old standard is pretty sloooooooow especially for something like a hard drive, so go for USB2.
If you don't have USB2 on your systems it will be worth buying two PCI to USB2 cards at around $20 each, these will make a dramatic differance to external hard drive performance and data transfer rates. Martin
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If you don't have USB2 on your systems it will be worth buying two PCI to USB2 cards at around $20 each, these will make a dramatic differance to external hard drive performance and data transfer rates. Martin
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