I'm thinking about purchasing a external hard drive. What would you guys recommend, USB 2.0, Firewire, or eSATA? Also who makes the best hard drives? Recommendations please.
I'd buy an internal drive and get an enclosure separate, so you'd have more control over what drive you are getting, and you'd end up with a better warranty from most companies. Typical WD drives have a 3 year warranty, but most of their externals have 1 year, for example. Plus servicing external drives yourself usually voids the warranty, if you have to open the enclosure.
Anyway, eSATA is my preferred interface, if you have a system that supports it. Otherwise, USB is pretty ubiquitous, whereas Firewire is actually getting a little uncommon in the non-Apple side. My old desktop had firewire ports, but my latest one only has headers for them and no on board ports.
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