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Old 06-06-2006, 09:10 PM
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Re: dead computer

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Originally Posted by Boddie
How do external hard drives work?

Are they not slow?
Not these days..about 3/4 the speed of an IDE drive. For example, to transfer 450mb of data would take less than 30 seconds on a USB 2.0 drive. Perfectly usable for storage.
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