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 My-Book 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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机译：去年，外置硬盘得到了发展，而不仅仅是在容量增加方面。驱动器制造商终于意识到，Mac和PC处理相同的数据类型，并且为这两个平台构建单独的驱动器在财务上并不明智，对处理越来越多数据量的用户没有帮助。因此，供应商将推出在USB 2.0，FireWire 400和FireWire 800接口上标准化的驱动器。最新的三款产品是艾美加（Iomega）的Triple Interface Professional Silver系列台式机硬盘，西部数据（Western Digital）的My-Book Pro EditionⅡ和迈拓（Maxtor）的OneTouchⅢ，Turbo版。虽然这些单元并不能代表各种外部驱动器，但它们确实很好地描述了该类型。
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