As I have to travel between two computers regularly, last year I
bought  a Maxtor 250gb external HD with both USB2.0 & Firewire. It's
fast and works flawlessly.


On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:38:45 -0500, "Picopirate" <picopir8@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
>"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.
>