21. Its accessories are also small, including the power supply and the external floppy drive. 22. Its one down side, though, is that it uses an external floppy drive. 23. Likewise, external CD-ROM drives are sold separately. 24. Most repair shops also have external CD drives. 25. Once attached, the camera looks like an external hard drive. 26. SCSI was complex and expensive, but it allowed for such high data speeds that it could easily support external hard drives. 27. SCSI is still the only way to hook up most Mac-compatible external drives and scanners. 28. This is especially important to me because I have an external CD-ROM drive and a Jaz disk drive. 29. When you are done, your PC can rely on the external drive for extra storage or as a backup device. 30. You can also plug in red-hot external FireWire hard drives from firms like Maxtor and Western Digital, whenever you need a couple dozen extra gigabytes. |