Quote Originally Posted by Its a Plant
Okay so almost all of the stuff I want to store on there is on there....shit like music, movies, pictures, documents...

It's pretty easy to access, at least from mine. When it's plugged in, (I have an iMac btw), there's just an icon that says "My Book". I click it and anything that's on there is easy as hell to find. It's a little different getting used to, I will say that.

I've yet to notice a change in speed at all, but I dunno...In either case NOW I'll have room for a shit ton more music. :jointsmile:
A desirable speed change will occur after defragmentation of the hard disk drive(s) takes place.

I have always assumed that the process of disk defragmentation took place in the background [automatically] of Mac OS X.

When you have provided your notebook with the appropiate space needed to defrag, it will commence assume.