On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:19:49 -0500, Anna wrote:

> Incidentally, you might be interested to know that we're (slowly) moving
> away from using USBEHDs as we are building more & more machines with SATA
> capability. The newer motherboards, are, of course, SATA-capable, and many
> of them are coming equipped with an external SATA port. This yields
> substantial benefits in that we can now easily connect an external SATA
> drive to the machine which the system sees as an *internal* drive. Thus, the
> "external" SATA drive is eminently bootable and of course has substantial
> speed advantages over a USB/Firewire EHD. Note the SATA drive utilizes the
> system's PS so that no external PS is necessary. It would seem the best of
> all possible worlds, no?

Not Edward, but find the info interesting. Won't be upgrading my desktop
until late next year. Much can change in the hardware arena in that amount
of time but will file this tidbit anyhow. Thanks for the info, Anna.

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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User