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How to buy a hard disk
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1 Firewire 800 gives the fastest transfer speeds, but is restricted to the high-end Macs; Firewire 400, the universal Mac connection, is usually faster tahn USB 2, which is best suited to swapping data with PCs. |
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2 The first-generation SATA connection has data transfer speeds of up to 150MB/sec, and drives can be hot-swapped |
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3 ATA is still the most common internal connection for modern hard disks |
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4 You can use Raid in Disk Utility to combine disks for speed or security benefits |
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