"radon" wrote in message
...
I just bought a USB 2 drive kit that converted a regular HDD (Maxtor
7700rpm
20GB) to an external USB 2 drive. It is blazingly fast for an
external
drive. I was wondering which is faster, internal drives or USB 2 and
by how
much?


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