USB Hard Drives

[Greg]

Not having a clue about USB Hard Drives. I've seen a good offer on a 300GB HDD for £99.

My question is, the drive connects via USB 2.0:

1) Will it perform just as fast as an internal drive for movie storage and transfers?

2) If i were to leave it permenantly plugged in, will I still be able to 'map to it' like a normal HDD over my Network.

3) Can you partition USB HDDs like standard HDDs?

thanks

greg

 

[Greg]

Alrighty. Thanks guys

I'm a bit undecided at the moment. It would be useful to have somthing thats portable as I travel a lot.

Ok, thanks, we'll have to see