External Backup Drive: eSata vs. USB

[Kevin Cozens]

Kareem Shehata wrote:
> Just ran into a snag with the plan to backup to an external drive: the old
> MoBo on my dev/secondary server only has USB1.1 ports (it's an old MSI
> K7T266 Pro2, but hey it did the job for years).  So now the question is: do
> I grab a PCI SATA board (such as the ByteCC that Canada computers has on for
> $17), or grab a PCI USB2.0 adapter?

With all the devices being connected to a computer via USB these days, I would 
think the USB2.0 adapter would be more generally useful for you.

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