Its eSATA on a 3 year old Fantom external.
Thanks for the info. Getting another disc asap. Any suggestions on just buying an external or internal+dock? I dont expect to have really more than 2 drives and I could just used this broken drive's ext case with another internal drive.
Edit: I'm...
My ext HD would sometimes cause my computer to have hickups of freezing (as in freeze for a few seconds, then unfreeze, and freeze again... etc.). If I unplug it then the freezing stops. I turned it off for a few days and restarted it up today. These are the tests I got from HD Tune...