"Desktop" folder on external hard drives

Hi all,
I have regularly seen a folder called "Desktop" appear on my external firewire and usb drives. I usually delete it and think nothing more but today I attached a new external drive and there it was again......
Why is it there? What use is it?
Does anyone know????

It is probably a relic of Apple's old OS, which lives on partly in the Carbon library. Used to, you could have two paths:
Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:latest_updates.doc
Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:latest_updates.doc
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