Touching terabytes

I remember when a Terabyte sounded like a lot of storage in a computer and it wasn't that long ago.

Now I'm thinking of going out and buying one of those external hard drive things to store my music, my videos and all my files because my PC is running out of space.

The thing is to buy something with a high data transfer rate.

There's nothing worse than sitting there watching the files fly from left to right and watching the time remaining counter count down.

We are modern computer users. We REFUSE to wait. For anything.

I'm tempted by S-ATA. It has a data transfer speed 6 times faster than USB 2. Wait! Am I losing you here? Nope. Good.

As I was saying, S-ATA looks like a good option. The problem is the Laptop. If it doesn't support S-ATA off the side of the system then it's a waste of time surely.

You can buy a little USB2 to S-ATA adapter but the USB port is limited to 480 Mb/s so you'll have a bottleneck right there surely. I might be wrong. Anyone know if this is true?

OK. Got to go and finish copying these files from one system to another. Anything for some free hard drive space.