"Picopirate" <picopir8@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3f84ca0b$1_3@newspeer2.tds.net...
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> "Tesselator" <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:bcvvl0$kvd$1@catv02.starcat.ne.jp...
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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.


Oh.    :-/


Yeah that makes sense.   I wasn't thinking about protability, just proformance.

You're right I think tho...  If you wanna tote stuff here and there a Jazz
drive or FireWire/USB HDD would probably be the way to go.