Heh. Yes, it's exactly the IT equivalent of those things. I don't know much about external hard drives - I basically just read a bunch of reviews online before I ordered one. The one thing I learned from them is that bigger is not always better. It seems that the 300 GB hard drives tend to be less stable than the 150 and 200 GB drives that have proved themselves over time. I am aware that my external hard drive could also fail, but I have a better shot now of keeping my important things.

As for Veronica Mars . . . I'll email you! :-)