said by pb2k:Splitting hairs much? If you have an old IDE (wow, SATA is almost 10 years old!) drive kicking around, or think a flash drive is well suited, then by all means...
No, not splitting hairs. Trying to genuinely clarify what Symtex meant. esata would be the best interface for external storage imo. As fast as an internal HD, and not as complicated to interface. USB would be the most compatible, however it's not as fast, and requires extra hardware (usb to sata bridge).
If I were splitting hairs, I'd point out that (in almost all cases these days), the correct term for IDE is PATA. Drives that people refer to as 'ide' are actually just parallel ata drives. ATA being the successor to IDE, which was the successor to MFM.
I can use my 10 MEG MFM hard drive right?