Wow, guys N gals! Ofice Max has a sale through March 18th on their Simpletech 250Gb external drive for $99, (is it 3.5" ?? Doesn't say in the March 4th flyer!) which beats the Costco price of $119 for their WD 160Gb 2.5"drive. Yep, they work great in GNU/Linux, though I reformat them to EXT3.