Agree about faster drives if this is more than a data dump.
Interesting though I did some testing and my WD MyBook USBs out perfromed most of my older internal IDEs.
Sata though really shined, you can pickup an PCI SATA card with external ports, of if you MB has SATA and you have a spare port or two the external enclosures I got are eSata and included a external slot and cable. This allowed you to connect to an internal SATA port and route it to a rear slot. Nice feature.

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