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robert99 · 04-07-2009, 13:33

You can get lighter laptop external USB HDs (LaCie) and these work off of the power of the laptop through the USB. The bigger ones run off of mains power. If you have e-SATA then that reads/writes very much faster.

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robert99 Seasoned Punter Join Date: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 336	Re: External hard drive advice You can get lighter laptop external USB HDs (LaCie) and these work off of the power of the laptop through the USB. The bigger ones run off of mains power. If you have e-SATA then that reads/writes very much faster.