external hard drive for windows 98

Dan wrote:

> Do you say that because it makes a work desk more messy or are external hard
> drives not as reliable as internal hard drives. I know external hard drives
> are more portable but I was wondering if you could kindly expand upon your
> answer for me 98 Guy. Thanks in advance because I do appreciate it.

I question the need for portability and think it's more the case that
people don't know how to change the existing drive in their system or
don't know that they can. Most times they don't know that they should,
once their drives reach a certain age and failure becomes a real
possibility.

And I wouldn't sacrifice performance to get portability. You won't get
high performance with USB vs connecting an IDE or SATA drive directly to
your motherboard.

I understand and thank you for the clear and concise response.

"98 Guy" wrote:

> Dan wrote:
>
> > Do you say that because it makes a work desk more messy or are external hard
> > drives not as reliable as internal hard drives. I know external hard drives
> > are more portable but I was wondering if you could kindly expand upon your
> > answer for me 98 Guy. Thanks in advance because I do appreciate it.
>
> I question the need for portability and think it's more the case that
> people don't know how to change the existing drive in their system or
> don't know that they can. Most times they don't know that they should,
> once their drives reach a certain age and failure becomes a real
> possibility.
>
> And I wouldn't sacrifice performance to get portability. You won't get
> high performance with USB vs connecting an IDE or SATA drive directly to
> your motherboard.
>