If anyone is watching this thread and desides to get an external drive, I'de get a sata drive with sata interface rather than sata with usb. The former transfers data up to three times faster and costs about the same. Just make sure you have an open sata slot or port  on your mobo or on the back of your computer.

Also with vista os around the corner. I have placed a copy of every aplication I own on a backup drive. This way I can do a clean install of Vista and install all my apps from one source drive.

Comes in handy if you get a new system also, you can just plug the application drive into the comp and start installing without looking for all the cds and serial numbers.

Main folder  named All Progams, within that a folder an application copy.
Each folder has the entire application and a text file which is the serial number(aka product key)

It took a while to organize because I have more than fifty apps, but it should payoff in time savings the first time you need it. also I think apps will install faster from a  harddrive than from a cd or dvd rom drive.

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