Best External hardrive for video for MacBook Pro?

I have a MacBook Pro - 2009. I have put a lot of video on my computer and it's getting full so I need to clear content off to make some room. What is the best and easiest external drive for holding video? Also, I want it to be super easy to access and move a video file back from the drive to my computer to work on.

The best HDD is the one that works. You will find many officialdoms of various brands and detractors of those very same brands. What I think is important for you is to get the right enclosure in which to mount the HDD. Video files are huge and to transfer the data from your internal drive to the external drive can last a long time. I speak from experience.
The enclosure I use and endorse is the OWC Mercury Elite-Al Pro mini. It can be connected by not only USB & Firewire but eSata as well. An eSata connection is the fastest available at this time, that I know of. (I'm sure thunderbolt and USB3 will coming along soon, but not available yet.) They are well constructed out of heavy aluminum extrusions and dissipate heat very well. Be warned, they are not cheap.
For what its worth, most of my HDDs are Seagate, but I have a Hitachi which came with my new MBP and Toshibas Which were inside enclosures that I purchased. All of them are still spinning.
Ciao.

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