On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:50:14 GMT, "salaryman" <salaryman@socal.rr.com>
wrote:

>Like many people, I've started assembling a group of external usb hard
>drives on my system, to increase capacity without having to open up the
>case and replace the old hard drive.

snip

It is really difficult to answer a question from someone who buys hubs
and external HDDs in preference to either replacing the existing HDD
with a larger one or, the best solution, installing a second HDD.

HDDs are cheap and installing one is simple, with any amount of
guidance posted.