>> I am not an expert, but I don't believe any external USB hard drive would be faster than an internal drive - I believe the internal drive would be significantly faster.<<
Even though USB 2.0 promises very fast speeds, chances are that the USB external drive is an internal IDE drive in a box with a USB interface. The advantages to the USB drive are not speed but portability. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body