My external USB 300gb Seagate woes - please help

Hi,
I am on a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1gig with 1.5 gb of RAM. OS 10.4.2
Recently I purchased a Seagate 300gb SATA drive and placed it into a USB 2.0 SATA/IDE enclosure. I have a USB 2.0 PCI card in my machine as well. I am using this as my first backup drive and I have another external 400gb drive on the way to serve as 2nd backup which will be stored offsite.
My problems started the first day I tried to backup my internal 160gb drive. First, after formatting the new drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) I started dumping large chunks of data into it and it seemed to run ok. I got a -51 error and had to start over.
Later, while pulling some folders over I noticed I didn't get the status window showing my estimated time for copying. I did get the spinning beach ball of death. This continued for quite some time. I shut off the enclosure and restarted the machine ( i believe it might have been a force quit)
Upon the restart I got the following error, " Disk Insertion" The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." Initialize, Ignore & Eject
After trying to mount the drive using Disk Utility I decided to run the FIrst Aid. I immediately got errors.
Invalid B-tree node size
Invalid B-tree node size
The volume needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
I then decided to re-format the drive. All was well and it showed up on my desktop. So I began to copy again. Same thing happened again. This time I got my drive almost backed up and got the funky spinning wheel near the end. I even copied over small folders one at a time.
I tried to do some research, but could not find any info on my particular issue. I found some firmware issue threads, but nothing describing my problem since I have the latest firmware version. I can't figure out why my file directory is corrupting like this as I have never had this happen before. Is it the drive itself?
I am very frustrated as I thought getting this drive would help to make my life easier. I have yet to receive my 400gb external drive to test, but unsure what to do with this current drive as it is proving to be unreliable.
Could it be the USB2.0 PCI card or enclosure? How do I trouble shoot something like that? Where should I start?
Would a firewire enclosure be better to utilize? Is it a SATA compatibility issue?
Am I better off with a SATA controller card and using the drive internally? Would doing a Archive and Install help anything? Should I even bother updating to 10.4.7?
I am at my wits end and have spent WAY too much time trying to research this. I even called Seagate tech support and they were utterly useless.
I would appreciate any and all comments or suggestions. All I want is a reliable redundant backup system.
thanks!
G4 dual G QS 2k Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Hi, Terry, and welcome to the Discussions!
There is a difference in technologies to consider when deciding on a card. SATA cards work with SATA (serial ATA) drives. ATA-133 cards work with ATA (PATA/IDE/EIDE/Ultra ATA) drives. If you're planning to hook an existing ATA drive to a SATA card, you'll need an adapter for each such drive you hook to it, which costs additional $ and won't take full advantage of the significant speed increase of SATA over ATA, being limited by the ATA drive itself, at least as I understand it.
You probably need to decide which technology will best suit your needs before anyone can give a specific recommendation on any particular card. (It sounds like your third hard drive is ATA, not SATA.)
SATA drives have different power cables for which an adapter cable is necessary to connect to your existing power cable connector. They don't use any jumpers to set the drive configurations, unlike ATA drives. They use a different interface cable as well, and not the ribbon cable like the one(s) currently in your Mac.
The "budget" low-cost, PC cards of either type won't work. Again, you need a card with firmware specifically designed to run on a Mac. Brands to look at are FirmTec, Acard, Sonnet, SIIG, and (just recently) the OWC offering previously mentioned. Still, insure that the card is made for a Mac.
Check out this page, which contains a variety of Mac-compatible ATA and SATA cards. You can then use the brand/part/model numbers to compare prices from other vendors like Newegg and others, if you desire. As previously noted, some SATA cards come with the necessary power cable adapter and seven-pin SATA data interface cable. Others don't, so check to see what you might need should you decide to go with SATA; the devil is in the specific details...
Gary
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