Andy wrote
Have a look at this FAQ-page: http://www.usb.org/faq/ans2
Also see: http://www4.tomshardware.com/mobile/20020827/index.html

As you will have gathered from the first link, transfer via a USB 1
interface
would be very slow. From the Tomsharware link above a device using a USB
2
interface would certainly benefit from the better performance of 7200 RPM
and
higher cache drives.

http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage...915/index.html also gives a good
indication of what can be expected from external drives.


Hi,
thanks for links, had a good read!. Hmmm so it would seem that the USB v2.0
interface is good enough to take advantage of the extra spindle speeds
(7,200rpm) and also the extra cache (8MB).

Will have to read a bit more. . .
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Wayne ][