External hard Drive

[Dream12]

I'm planning to take advantage of the awesome sale and get a couple more libraries from East West. In order to make room for the new libraries I'm going to purchase a 500 gig external hard drive in order to store/back up all the sonic information. This will also enable me to transport the libraries to other computers, I hope. What I'm wondering is this: is there a disadvantage in actually accessing the libraries over a USB connection like an external drive would use? Is performance in accessing the files that much slower, and if so what are my alternatives? I already have two internal drives so I'm pretty sure I'm out of room in there. One of my friends said that fire-wire might be faster than USB, if indeed it would be a problem.
Thanks in advance.
Shad

[Zero Alpha]

Hello Dream,

If its performance you are really chasing then purchase an external hard drive that has eSata and 7200rpm minimum.