Hi LOTR

Replying to your thought:OK, I will agree with that but it does mean that drive will run hot, regardless of what the manufacturers say, and are more prone to failure.

As for air slots, I believe they just barely make it as cosmetic adornments, that's why I have to keep a small desk fan blowing across the top of my modem-router. It just means that any further external HDs I get must have a sizeable fan installed.

However, I must admit I am somewhat apprehensive about going down the whole external USB HD drives again, plus the device I am looking at seems somewhat flimsy.

And I guess that no matter how much disk space I purchase I will always find stuff to fill them with. Back in the day when a 40MB HD was considered to be "very big" I had to delete stuff from my HDs to keep them running. Now, I seem to keep everything, I should probably re-learn the art of editing and deleting stuff.


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PS. Archiving is just another form of keeping old stuff.

PPS. There is a way around WinXP's 2TB limit but only for internal drives.