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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