[SickTheory]

I personally would Stay away from the WD MYBOOK external hard drives because I just had one go up. It hit the floor about 7 months before but for it to worked 7 months and then all of a sudden develop issues where it will be scene by the computer for about 10 minutes and all of a sudden error is not good.

Now, for those who say I shouldnt have dropped it, your right. If it broke then I would have no problem - 7 months later is an issue which means something else cooky happened.

I lucked up and my Dell has Esata, the advantage over Firewire and USB2 is simply speed.

USB 1.1 – 15 Mbps
FireWire (1394a) – 400 Mbps
USB 2.0 – 480 Mbps
FireWire 800 (1394b) – 800 Mpbs
SATA 1.5 – 1.5 Gbps
SATA 3.0 – 3.0 Gbps

I would look at Apricorn Aegis, Toshiba makes a 1 TB External hard drive but not sure how fast the drive is, and Fantom makes a 2 TB External hard drive that seems to be pretty good.