How fast are external USB Hard Drives?

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Winni

I'd recommend Firewire (800) for external drives; it's more reliable and from my own experience I can tell that even Firewire 400 performs better than USB 2.0 (which in theory should be faster at 480 Mbps). Good external cases have both ports anyway.

@Grey Alien: Maybe you will find something in the "GNU Unix Utilities for Win32" at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net. If you want something free with a GUI, Filzip is your friend: www.filzip.de (it's a .de domain, but it's multilingual).