Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
Might be better off installing your programs on your internal drive, and put media files on the external hard drive.
I would do this as well, mainly because a USB connection (or even firewire) won't be as fast as the connection between your internal hdd and the rest of the computer. Then again, it might not make a difference if your internal drive was fairly slow (as some laptop drives can be, though I'm not sure it'd be as slow as a USB drive). Still I wouldn't want to leave myself tied to an external drive to use my programs if I ever felt like leaving it behind when I take my laptop somewhere.