I really know what's going on at computer stores these days. I rightly predicted or waited for sales of LaCie 250 GB hard drives and thus we got me two for christmas. I also managed to put away until January a Linksys USB hard drive Lan device at another store now that these are coming off the market and have dropped 30 dollars in price. Thus the two hard drives will be network accessible. I am using a lot of space now on my present hard drives with movies and also multiple computer backups. Also one drive is about to fail and gives me slow operation on my eMac when the drive is connected.