External's for Editing

Hey,
Just a quick one. What would be the best type of external drive or connection from external to mac be if I wanted to edit with material directly off the external?
Firewire would be acceptable for lower file siezes, but what would be the best for when I'm working with large res/files as firewire just can't cope with it, particularly if working with multiple layers.

Obviously SATA allows level of performance that is hard to come by with FireWire, where you have a single bus. SATA has more bandwidth and less trouble.
If you really do still have 2GB RAM... that is an issue.
So if you have an available PCI slot (4x or 8x) and plan to use more than one drive in the future, or RAID, and for backups, in the long run eSATA is the way to go.
I assume you already have 4 internal drives, too.

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x

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