Peerless, USB or Firewire?

[Norcross]

Thinking of adding a Iomega Peerless drive, to an old system that does not have a USB bus, as a backup drive. Question is, since I don?ft have USB, I?fll need to install either a USB or Firewire card. I notice the price of the USB cards range from $24 to $78, with this wide price range I figured that maybe there is something I don?ft know about USB. Need some advice. Also, would I be better off going with Firewire?

 

[dieselstation]

it depends. firewire is MUCH faster, but USB has more products and might be more useful in the long run.

 

[bozo1]

You could purchase a USB2 card which will work with legacy USB devices. USB2 is as fast as firewire and you'll be ready for future USB2 devices.

 

[Norcross]

Thanks for the info. Didn't know about USB2, the higher priced USB cards were(3Com) probably a USB2.

 

[Norcross]

Thats Adaptec, not 3Com.