External hard drives have evolved in the last year–and not just in terms of increased capacity. Drive makers have finally realized that Macs and PCs handle the same data types and that building separate drives for the two platforms isn’t financially smart or helpful to users, who are dealing with ever-increasing amounts of data. As a result, vendors are rolling out drives standardized on the USB 2.0, FireWire 400, and FireWire 800 interfaces.
Three of the latest are Iomega’s Triple Interface Professional Silver Series Desktop Hard Drive, Western Digital’s MyBook Pro Edition II, and Maxtor’s OneTouch III, Turbo Edition. While these units don’t represent every variety of external drive, they do characterize the genre quite well.
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