"Steve Jorgensen" wrote in message
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On 17 Feb 2005 10:14:02 -0800, "Paul" wrote:

I have recently bought a new Tiny Mediabook U64-3700+ of which I am
awaiting delivery. The one drawback on this system that may affect me
using apps such as Reason 2.5 Cool Edit Pro
is the Fujitsu/Toshiba Hard Disk with minimum Ultra ATA/100 interface,
4200rpm speed, 12 ms Access time, 80GB capacity and 1MB Buffer. If I
bought an external drive with 7200rpm and connected it via a usb2
connection would this perform better?

Yes, for 2 reasons. First, the drive will be faster, and second, you
won't be
trying to use the same drive for the system software and virtual memory
that
you are using for storing your audio data. You might want to be careful
about
putting additional devices on the same USB port with the drive, though.

Has anybody done this? It would seem to me that the USB port would slow
down data transfer to the point that the difference in rotational speed
would be a wash....

jak