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jmnew51
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My girlfriend and I are contemplating purchasing a new computer. She is studying filmaking and needs a faster more up to date system than we are currently using. Chances are we will be purchasing an additional external hard drive so she can save her work at school and bring it home to continue to work on it. And video files and all those layers before finalizing take up gargantuan amounts of hard disk space. hence the need for an ext. HD. Question is is to get an ext. HD that interfaces using a firewire or a standard USB 2.0. She says everyone at school uses a firewire on their HD. But I thought that firewire wasn't as fast as USB 2.0. What are the pros and cons of either/or. I see that most ext. hd's are USB 2.0. But if firewire is better, no problem. I'm just not that knowledgeable with either of them, so I need a little advice.
Thanx
Jim
Thanx
Jim