At 04:27 -0800 on 9/2/06, CYNTHIA MOORE wrote: >I made the mistake and purchased two usb external hard >drives for back up and they are painfully slow. I >already own a firewire drive which I was using for >backups but had to delegate it to another use. Now I >would like to purchase another firewire but since I >only have one firewire slot on the G5 (I think), I >need some sort of firewire hub. Can anyone recommend >one? Also can anyone recommend a 150GB firewire drive? You shouldn't normally need a hub. Most firewire devices can be daisy-chained. -- Alec McKenzie alec at mckenzie.me.uk