thx dave,
Am looking around for a good deal on a 500GB FW - just to complicate things, TM has started deleting old backups on my other external drive Maxtor 1 touch. <sigh> Looks like I have to look for 2 additional b/u externals.
Its annoying the TM (as I understand it) will copy all the old backups on to any new external drive I install thus wasting a heckofalot of space.
<more sighs>