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[DigiDiva]

It's a Power Mac (obviously with a PPC processor).

[DigiDiva]

Originally Posted by wave01

that explains it. it will be usb 1 and if you work that usb 2 is approx 40x faster then your 5 hours becomes 7.5 minutes

I don't understand what yoiu mean bu USB1/USB2.....

[StephenBatey]

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus - but you don't need to know that. It was a means of standardising the various ways that external devices were connected to computers - there used to be several diiferent (incompatible) methods.

The first version was servicable for slow devices like mice and keyboards, but inadequate for anything where faster transfers were needed - like disk drives. As an illustration, when my computer only ran USB1 and my wife's had USB2 support, file transfers were far, far faster if I connected the USB disk to her computer, shared it over the network and copied files that way.

Version 2, as stated, was 40 times faster, and disks were usuable.

Version 3 is faster still.

Naturally, later versions require hardware and driver support; version 3 even comes with a different connector.

[donoreo]

It is a tower case (a real Power Mac) and not an iMac? That was why I wanted the specifics, we can look it up.

If it is a tower case, you can out an add in USB card with no problems. I did in an old G4 Power Mac I had. It worked great. You should be able to find one cheap.

[DigiDiva]

Its a tower......what do i buy?

[DigiDiva]

I stupidly thought usb1 and usb2 meant 2 usb ports...lol

[LaPistola]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

I stupidly thought usb1 and usb2 meant 2 usb ports...lol

Cool, plug in a hub and you have USB 8 before everyone else hehe.

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

Its a tower......what do i buy?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...b+card&x=0&y=0 Anything like these internal cards.

[DigiDiva]

Thanks guys - will run that link by my son, he should know if its compatable

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

Thanks guys - will run that link by my son, he should know if its compatable

I used the cheapest one I could find in my old PowerMac.