TexasCreole,
I'd recommend an external HD via Firewire instead of USB. Im pretty sure Western Digital offer these too. My reason is because I use a USB Ext HD and when you wanna back-up huge files (movies, music, etc) it takes a while,, Whereas via Firewire, the speeds are up to 400MB per sec.
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