On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > Will you believe that this external SATA drive with FW800 > connection is slower than my internal drives. > That now external drive came originally with this G5/2.5. Yes, I believe it. There is probably a considerable loss of performance due to the conversion of SATA to FireWire. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (3rd, 4th, and 5th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________