Tiny and fast, the newest 2.5 inch Travelstar hard drives from Hitachi may be the product that puts them back on the road to respectability after the ‘Deathstar’ fiasco caused quite a few to swear never to purchase an IBM/Hitachi drive again. Their small size makes them perfect for external, portable hard drives, and Ars Technica takes two variations of the Mercury On-The-Go Oxford911 for a spin in a detailed review. So detailed, in fact, that the testing brings other interesting numbers to light: the speed differences between Firewire and USB 2.0 on Mac OS X and Windows XP.
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Mercury On-The-Go Oxford911 Review (with Special Guest ‘Firewire Vs. USB 2.0’)
JOEL JOHNSON
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