WHAT IS THE BEST HARD DRIVE EXTERNAL (USB OR FIREWIRE) ????

[youtwo2]

MY QUESTIONS IS THE SAME WHAT IS THE BEST HARD DRIVE EXTERNAL (USB OR FIREWIRE) ????

I HAVE ALREDY 2 HARD DRIVES BUT I NEED I NEW ONE I FIND THE MAXTOR 40 GB EXTERNAL 5400 RPM USB (2.0) or
MAXTOR 80 GB EXTERNAL ? FIREWIRE ?

WICH ONE IS BETTER TO SAVE VIDEO,MUSIC ,ETC and to work

[Greg12]

They both have the speed needed to do what you want, in this case I'd go for the firewire only because it's bigger.

[zeppage2]

firewire with 7200 rpm...I don't believe USB will permit the transfer rate that video demands.

[sterno]

USB 2.0 has a theoretical transfer rate that's faster than Firewire, as long as you have a USB 2.0 controller in the computer. Not that you'll get the theoretical transfer rate of either USB 2.0 or Firewire with a cheap external drive, they're just UDMA drives with a bridge controller. The best you can do is slightly less than standard IDE speeds.

It would be wise to do some research, a few months back I saw that some of these external drive boxes were still using UDMA/33 bridge controllers.