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External Hard Drives: FireWire vs. USB 2.0

By Gizmodo Published August 28, 2002, 12:53 pm ET

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Tom’s Hardware surveys the landscape of gigantic (120GB+) external hard drives, looking at the differences between FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces.

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External Hard Drives: FireWire vs. USB 2.0

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