On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 8:07:49 PM UTC-5, ValterV wrote: > > Il giorno 16/01/15 00.36, "Bruce Johnson" ha scritto: > > >> A user group member wants to buy an external hard drive to back up her > old > >> iMac with 10.4 Tiger. > > > any USB drive should work on any USB-capable Mac. > > Most likely. > > But that iMac better have USB 2.0 ports, otherwise USB 1.1 slowness will > make the drive almost useless. > If the iMac only has USB 1.1 ports, a Firewire drive would be a better > (altough costlier) choice. > > That's a great reminder. Thanks everyone. I'm passing this on to the user group member.
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