120gb USB2 (MAXTOR 3000LE) $~150ar/pm/coupon. HOT!

[KLineD]

as per my post on fw...
SWWWEEEEEEEEEET!
Staples.com sku 486982
$279.98
Pricematch to emscomputing.com $226. My csr was nice not to add any shipping, but didn't do 110% but its fine.
subtract a $40 coupon, $186. add tax, and subtract the $30 rebate by maxtor, WHAM! $156.
How nice is that?!!

 

[Dre]

great price for a 120GB external USB2 drive

 

[jonnashville]

TechTV bursts the USB 2.0 bubble

<<Don't be confused by the rated speeds you see emblazoned across USB 2.0 and FireWire product boxes. Despite USB 2.0's 80 Kbps speed advantage over FireWire, our testing showed that the additional overhead of USB 2.0 made it slower than FireWire. For high-bandwidth devices such as external hard drives, the difference was as high as 70 percent.>>

Benchmarks
<<While USB 2.0 may not be the ultimate hard drive interface, its ability to read at a rate of 6MB per second matches the maximum write speed of a 40x CD recorder. Focusing on the MP3 transfer rates (Test 2), FireWire offers a significant advantage over USB 2.0, besting it by nearly 48 percent in write speeds and over 70 percent in read speeds.>>

 

[ponch007]

I have the 40 gig version and like it very much. I get transfer speeds 11x -12x faster with the USB 2 than running it at 1.1

 

[ponch007]

I got about 10meg/ secs transfer with my set up

msi k7t 266a pro2 -ru
duron 900
640 megs ram


I didnt create a ram disk or anything technical ike that -- just thought real world test might be helpful