Hi Jim,

I have a 320GB WD USB HD, and it came formatted using NTFS, as I believe most drives are. Anyway, you can easily re-format it using whatever file system your OS supports. But be aware that these USB drives are relatively slow, and can never compare to an internal drive. This also means that 10,000RPM will be overkill.

>As my computer woes continue my thought is to take my data drive from the system and put it into one of those external USB enclosures so that I can extract my data to another system or 2.
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>Does anyone know if these devices support NTFS?
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>While I think it's not a problem, am I correct that there should be no problem installing a 10,000 rpm drive into such a box?
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>Any comments appreciated.