Hi,

It was the largest I have found a month ago. I haven't seen anything larger since. The next bump should be 320 GB, but I haven't seen one that isn't SATA yet.

USB external drives are too slow.

To check that out, I purchased a WD2500 style 250 GB USB external drive. It is quite slow, but could be used for archive. Even with on drive cache, it was too slow for my taste. I thought that maybe I could still use the drive (hoping it was a USB to PATA/IDE) inside. You guessed it SATA drive, can't use it for an Empeg or my Gateway or HP Laptops. Guess if I use it, it will be a USB archive.

Ross
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