PickaxeFairy

First off, my PC is older than yours and I have five external USB hard drives and one external USB DVD writer.

I bought my PC in October 2002 and it had only 4 x USB1.1 ports (as well as a 60GB HD C:\ drive and only 512MB ram), I eventually added 2 x PCI to USB2.0 cards which gave me 8 x USB2.0 external ports and it is these ports that my five external USB hard drives are connected to. And as I said in my previous post, I have had no problems with any of them, i.e 2 x 160GB, 2 x 250GB and 1 x 500GB.

Just out of interest, I have changed my original 60GB HD for a 300GB one and added a second internal 500GB HD, and I have had absolutely no power problems.

So, connecting any external drives to your set up, whether they are 1TB USB HDs, 2 x 250GB HDs, etc., they will not cause you any problems whatsoever.

Finally, as you can imagine I am constantly swapping data/info between my externals, my internals to externals and back again, also without any problems.

Hope this helps



UK Bob