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Forget the external USB drives man... just pick yourself up a controller card and add more IDE ports to the PC. As stated by a few guys above, most motherboards have a limitation of two IDE ports which will let you run master/slave x 2 - so essentially you can have 4 IDE devices (cd-roms, hard drives, etc..).
But if you stop by your local Best Buy store, you can pick up an Ultra ATA 133 card, which will give you two more IDE ports to work with. I picked one up at the local Best Buy for about $29.00. Then you won't have to dish megabucks out for the huge 500gig drives -- you can go with two more 200's or even two 120's for the price they're at now.
Good luck!
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