What is a firewire in relation to a Hard drive?

Question

Hi
Can any one suggest which hard drive brand should i buy for external hard drive.
I was looking at Seagate 320gb. The 2 i looked at are
- eSATA/FireWire external hard drive and
- eSATA external hard drive.
Can any one please tell whats the difference between the 2 above and am i making the right decision to buy Seagate

Thanks for your responses

Answer 1

Firewire is no more than the type of connection used like a USB-1 or USB-2 Firewire is of that same type only has a faster transfer rate than USB.
Next as far as Harddrives are concerned, You didn't make the ttrue distinction between External or Internal.
Segate is one of several brands on the market that made ther mark in Internal Hard drives like are in most computers.
They make good products, If you are in the market for External, I suggest you look at one of these.
iOmega, Lacie, Maxtor, Mercury, all of these have excelent Hard Drives External, that are either USB, or Firewire and they for the most part is you plug them in and your off, they mount on your present computers desktop and you simply drag and drop, there are of course different features depending on what you want it for.
Don

Answer 2

Firewire and eSATA are both connection interfaces. For external hard drives, eSATA is the fastest interface. BUT be sure your PC or motherboard has the eSATA slot at the back.
More on eSATA here:
http://www.asrock.com/news/eSATAII.asp
Hitachi HDD was used in the chart but a Seagate HDD would give similar performance.