> "good enough" for many uses. I've been unable to see any difference between writing to my USB2 external Maxtor OneTouch drive and the system's internal ATA100/133 disks over a 100Mbps network. USB2 should be able to keep up with light (2, maybe 3 or 4 computers) accessing the drive via a 10/100 network, but USB2 won't be able to keep pace with even one gigabit network. For home networks that are only running 10/100 or wireless and have only a small handful of clients, I don't see any reason why USB2 based storage couldn't keep up. Performance can also depend on your USB2 host hardware. I tried a cheap PCI USB2 addon card in an old computer to run my backups, and performance was less than stellar. The drive would mount up fine and I could format it and copy data to and from it. All was going well, but when BackupPC started pulling in data things went south. Write speed started fine but declined as activity continued and eventually the hard drive would disconnect from the USB2 bus with a number of errors written to the system console. I replaced the cheap USB2 noname card with a slightly more expensive Adaptec branded USB2 card and all the problems went away. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; 0 rows returned