You're right..It would take alot longer due to transferring info. via USB Cable. Sorry I'm being a little broad with my questions . Basicly I want to download my music to an external thinking I could scan my main PC without having to scan my music all the time . Any advise on best ways to go about this? also; will the downloads be slower than normal by saving them directly to the future external drive??

Thank You Again so much.
Dimen