How fast are external USB Hard Drives?

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AdrianT
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BTW my above figures were with a 480 mbps and its not much slower than the internal ATA133 IDE HD.

I'd go with USB since its universal and backwards compatible with USB 1. So best for portability between multiple systems compared to firewire which isn't widely supported.