"Tesselator" <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I personally would never consider hooking up an HD to a firewire
> or USB2 unless it was a laptop or something.    Kid-stuff.
>

Why not? Actually I find them more valuable for people who DONT have
laptops.  Its the ultimate in portable storage.  Keep all your files on your
USB2 HD and you can easily have access to them on you home computer, your
work/school computer, your friends computer, etc.  Many of my coworkers have
USB2 HDs and keep their music, photos, etc on them so they can listen to
their music at home or work w/o having to carry around all their CDs.  They
also back up their work on the HD so they have access to their files at home
w/o having to VPN into the office network.