Subject: [X4U] USB 1.2 and 2.0

[Richard Stoddard]

On Nov 26, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
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> Anyone care to share their experience with a failed hard drive?

I've been using external hard drives for many years, first with  
Windows and now with OS-X. I had a hard drive failure earlier this  
year with an iMac, and while that was pre Time Machine, I did have  
daily backups, so lost only a few e-mails I had already transferred  
from my inbox to a folder on my hard drive. Can't imagine living  
without an external drive for backups. Whether I'll use Time Machine  
to automate a restore down the road remains to be seen, since I'm  
quite accustomed from WIndows days to restore directory by directory  
and have used those misfortunes as an opportunity t clean out  
unnecessary files/directories.