Originally Posted by
cordelli
USB. It will allow you to plug the drive into any machine built in the last ten years.
i.link (you may know it as firewire on apples) would work, but it's not as common as USB so if you need to plug into another machine it may not have the ports.
Honestly, for backups to an external drive I would not be that worried about speed, just plug the drive in and let it run. I would also just purchase one of the external drives when they are on sale, it would probably be less expensive than buying everything and getting it to all work.
If you were rendering videos off the external drive it would probably matter more to the speed, but not for backups.
Thanks. To clarify, what I want is the equivalent of a
CMS Products backup drive, i.e. one which is a clone of my own drive so in a pinch, if the internal notebook drive dies, I can just disassemble the external unit and then swap drives. Since it is impossible to know what brand of drive CMS is using, I'd rather buy what I want along with the enclosure and cable.
This make sense? Do you disagree with this?