Questions about Firewire/USB HDDs


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Hello,

Soon I'm gonna uber upgrade my computer and I was looking on Ebay for harddrivers. I was looking at the IBM Firewire harddrives, which come in various capacities up to 120GB.

The specs say that 2.0 USB has faster tranfer than firewire connection so if I get that I'll prolly use it thru my USB.

But since USBs get power from the CPU will that slow down things? Also the page in IBM wouldn't load for me, does anyone know if these harddrives come with fans or something and how hot they get?, and would they be better or worse to get compared to an IDE.

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