I'm thinking of getting an external hard drive, but first I have a few questions (I'm sure these are very easy for anyone with an external hard drive to answer):
1. Why would I want the external hard drive to be bootable?
2. If I don't care if it's bootable, is there much advantage to getting firewire? (e.g. are file transfers noticeably faster than USB 2.0?)
3. If I make a bootable hard drive (with SuperDuper), can I still put other stuff on the hard drive? (I have an 80 gig hard drive right now and I am thinking of getting a 250 gig external hard drive, so I want to be able to store large movies or whatnot exclusively on the external) And if I do put something extra on the external hard drive, will it get erased if I update my backup?
Oh, I just had an idea, I could partition the external hard drive to make a section just over 80 gigs, and then leftover space. I could have one half exclusively for backups, and the other half for other stuff. Comments?
1. Why would I want the external hard drive to be bootable?
2. If I don't care if it's bootable, is there much advantage to getting firewire? (e.g. are file transfers noticeably faster than USB 2.0?)
3. If I make a bootable hard drive (with SuperDuper), can I still put other stuff on the hard drive? (I have an 80 gig hard drive right now and I am thinking of getting a 250 gig external hard drive, so I want to be able to store large movies or whatnot exclusively on the external) And if I do put something extra on the external hard drive, will it get erased if I update my backup?
Oh, I just had an idea, I could partition the external hard drive to make a section just over 80 gigs, and then leftover space. I could have one half exclusively for backups, and the other half for other stuff. Comments?