ESATA external and iMac

Hello,
I have the latest iMac 24", 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB memory.
I'm looking for another external drive. Can this mac use eSATA drives? Sorry I don't much about them.
Thanks.

I don't have personal experience with them so I can't comment from that point of view. I would recommend doing a search on this forum and Google them to see if there are any recurring issues.
I did just that, it seems the only thing I found was make sure the firmware is up to date and some have reported them being noisy.
Personally I use Lacie Quadra D2's (currently have 3 of them) and have had very good luck with them. I have them daisy chained together. My thoughts are it's worth it to pay a few more $ for them if I have critical information on them, even then I make sure I have redundant backups.

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