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External Drive - ethernet or wireless?

Avatar Roy Rainford
I am looking for an external desktop drive as the main back-up for my iMac and wonder if I should go wireless rather than an ethernet cable? Would wireless be fast enough for transferring images of around 50Mb?
Today I saw a Seagate 1TB (ethernet) on offer for £99 at Maplin and a 2TB (wireless) for £149. Prices have not returned to the previous lower level following the disruption of production in Thailand due to floods in July 2011. Perhaps I should wait a while? Comments/recommendations welcomed. Roy

Re: External Drive - ethernet or wireless?

Avatar Roy Rainford
One reply received on another forum:
"USB any day. I have had two Ethernet drives - not great on Macs, they had very clunky connection methods because they are based on Windows protocols (steampunk networking). What I have now for that function is a more friendly variant, my router accepts USB drives as Gigabit Ethernet remote storage, and does not require a mounting utility to locate the drive."

Re: External Drive - ethernet or wireless?

Avatar Mick Burrell
I wouldn't suggest wireless unless there's no way you can site the drive near enough to the computer to connect by cable. My interface choices would be Firewire, USB, Ethernet, Wireless in that order.
 
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