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| 502306 | 2006-11-26 22:02:00 | I have been asked to buy and fit an external DVD burner for someone. The PC that it is to be fitted to is an old IBM (there are no free internal bays) running windows 2000 with 128m RAM. It has a free USB1 port. The DVD burners that i have been looking at are all USB2. The question is, will a new USB2 DVD burner run on USB1, will it work at all on an older machine??? The reason the person wants this is just so they can back-up photos, im suspecting the PC might not be able to handle the DVD burner. Im thinking an external hard-drive is probably more suitable, any ideas??? |
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| 502307 | 2006-11-27 19:59:00 | The USB2 burner should work when connected to USB1, but given the amount of RAM and the age of the machine I wouldn't recommend it. The max speed would probably be 2x or maybe 4x, but i'm not sure the PC's hard drive would keep up. An external drive would probably be the better option, but that's going to be slow too. If you boosted the RAM to 512MB and replaced any existing internal CD-Rom/buner with the DVD burner that would be a better option. |
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| 502308 | 2006-11-27 20:16:00 | internal burner much cheaper and more likely to work well enuf | drcspy (146) | ||
| 502309 | 2006-11-28 00:32:00 | Its an old IBM and there is no way to fit a new internal drive, the one its got is an odd size :annoyed: , i've opted for an external hard drive to back things up. cheers for the help guys |
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