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New to external HDD's, need recommendation please

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This is a link to my mobo.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_III_FORMULA/specifications/

I want to get a small external HDD to use for backing up home videos and photos of my family.

I'm looking for a recommendation for what type of hard drive to get? Mostly which interface I should go with?

I believe my options are USB 3.0, esata or Power esata.

I don't need a huge amount of space, 1TB would probably be fine.
 
The USB 3.0 drives are pretty fast and I've been using two for about a year for backup purposes. 1 Seagate Backup Plus and another WD.

These are also probably cheaper and more portable.
 
Tacking onto this thread as I am also looking for a good backup solution. I was using a 1.5TB HD in an enclosure connecting via esata. But I've had trouble with the JMicron drivers on my P8Z68V-Pro (ver 1) and esata has not worked for a while. So I'm leaning to a USB 3 solution.

I'd like at least a 2TB drive, maybe even a 3TB drive. From my brief search, Seagate has a 2TB USB3 Backup Plus slim drive that has good reveiws. But to go to 3TB, I'll have to go to a larger drive... in an enclosure again... or a Backup Plus. The Backup Plus slim in the 4TB version uses two 2TB drives in a raid 0 configuration... no thanks.
 
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