Is an external 2,5 " drive with USB 2.0 interface compatible with USB 1.1
on the desktop?

Re: USB interface by philo

philo
Sun Mar 16 06:18:09 PDT 2008


"Oivind" <oeivinr@online.no> wrote in message
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> Is an external 2,5 " drive with USB 2.0 interface compatible with USB
> 1.1 on the desktop?
>

Though it will probably work,if you are transferring data you will find that
whatever might
have taken a few minutes with a USB2 connection
will take many hours on USB1.1
So I'd definately put a USB2 card in the desktop machine



Re: USB interface by M

M
Wed Mar 19 06:42:17 PDT 2008


"Oivind" <oeivinr@online.no> wrote in message
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> Is an external 2,5 " drive with USB 2.0 interface compatible with USB
> 1.1 on the desktop?
>

Yes.

It will be slow.

But it will work.