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> drive itself.  Personally, unless being able to easily move 
> it from one
> computer to another is an issue, I'd go with an internal.

>From what I read (in a review), the USB 2 speed isn't bad, nor is the
USB 1. (USB 2 will nicely downgrade to USB 1, so I can use it now and
when I buy my next machine, I'll get USB2 then.)

> As for partitioning, you will waste space to a certain extent 
> on one large
> partition.  But what the heck?  You can get 120GB drives for 
> $100-150 if you
> shop, and the time and annoyance you'll save is probably 
> worth the handful
> of megabytes you'll lose.  And, really, it's small files that are most
> wasteful.  If you have a 16K cluster size, a 3-byte file will 
> still store as
> if it were 16K.  However, a 500MB file still only wastes up to 16K.

Cool. Most files will be 4 megs or so.

-rc


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