I personally would remove the old drive from the old computer and put it into the new one. Networking (someone correct me if I am wrong) in not a fast enough connection to make it worth doing. It can take a while to transfer files back and fouth. However, my freind and I were recently discussing using two machines at once. He says to use one for recording and one to do the plug ins. I am not sure how to do that, but I will ask. He is also talking about two new computers. I will ask him soom on how that is done, but that is an option as well. That would be the only reason I could think of to have two networked together.