>I agree; sounds like a must thing to have, like a spare tire. I will order one. Thank you.

I got one of those when it cost $25. We managed to plug daughter's old SATA drive and it sort of worked - except that the USB isn't a rocket, its speed is a tad limited. But then I don't regret it - it's useful, and we have already restored a few things from old disks that lie around.

Though with the way the prices have gone down, we now collectively have about a terabyte of unused space and then some. It eats no bread, and comes handy - I don't expect I'll ever have to drive at 9PM to find a disk to buy (which I did, and it turned out to be a real savior, instead of wasting 4 hours making room on disk, it cost about 2 billable hours then).

>>It has three interfaces for the drive itself : 3.5" HDD/Optical Drive 2.5" HDD and SATA drive. I know it works with the 80 gb drive in a Zune and the little drives in notebooks and any old desktop internal drive I've throw at it. Once you plug in, you just stick the USB into a live box and you've got an external drive. Great for those old 40gb drives you pulled out when you upgraded. For $20 how can you go wrong?