On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Shaun Ladewig wrote:

> Has anyone tried it?  Does anyone have any suggestions for external
> drives that I should buy?  (The reason for the external drive is that it
> is on my laptop).  My bios does support booting of usb devices, so I'm
> not to worried there.

USB is slow - very slow.  You'll get less than 1MB/second from it.  But maybe
that's okay for your application.  You could get USB 2.0, and that's
backward-compatible, but not as well supported in GNU/Linux.

                                                -J


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