External hard drive choices

ok right now im looking at
a 349$ Maxtor 750GB OneTouch™ III External Hard Drive
a 299$ LaCie 500GB d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface
and a 199$ Western Digital My Book™ Essential Edition External Hard Drive
however the first two come with fire wire 400 and 800 and usb 2.0 the second only comes with the usb which one do you think i should get? id prefer a cheap one but i want the one that will work best with both my imac g5 and also my other pcs running windows xp

I would definitely get one of the ones with firewire - you cannot boot a G5 from usb, only firewire, and the ability to backup/clone (I use SuperDuper!)and then boot from an external is priceless.
The only other consideration is price, get the most GB you can afford, and make sure it's firewire,
Miriam

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    I like firewire better than USB. You don't lose a USB port, and a firewire device is chainable so you can connect another device right to the back of it. I think firewire is a little faster, too.
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       2:          Apple_CoreStorage OWC 750 GB Archive      749.8 GB   disk3s2
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    |       Fully Secure:            No
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    |           Size (Total):       1111826497536 B (1.1 TB)
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    |           Revertible:         No
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    |   Name:         LaCie Porsche 2TB Time Machine
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    |       Conversion Status:       Complete
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    |       Fully Secure:            Yes
    |       Passphrase Required:     Yes
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    |           Status:             Online
    |           Size (Total):       1999719411712 B (2.0 TB)
    |           Size (Converted):   -none-
    |           Revertible:         Yes (unlock and decryption required)
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    |   Free Space:   16777216 B (16.8 MB)
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    |   |   Size:     749812400128 B (749.8 GB)
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    |   +-> Logical Volume Family 84C4B3C3-63DE-4487-A285-79733D638B14
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