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Hey all, trying to help my dad get a few more months out of his 333 iMac. His hard drive is full as he has finally discovered iTunes. I have a 6GB from another iMac in an external Firewire/USB xx which I am thinking about letting him use. Anyone know if the 12Mbps would be too slow to play music through iTunes?

[Krusty]

Should work just fine. Audio ranges from 1411 kbps for aiff to 128-256 kbps for mp3/aac. USB 1.x, at 12 mbps should be able to handle both w/o a hiccup. I've often played mp3 from my USB 1.1 keychain "flash" hard drive ... and I just added an aiff to make sure I wasn't steering you wrong. Works just fine

*note: this keychain hard drive has an upper speed limit that is FAR lower than USB 1.1 ... and its still fast enough. Your external should perform even better than this.

[slider]

Thanks Krusty.

[bradoesch]

Absolutely yes. USB 1.1 can do about 1 MB per second. MP3s (at 128 KB/s I think) are usually 1 MB per minute of music.