What is a good storage device for pictures?

Any advice on an external storage device for pictures/videos to free up space on my iMac?  Thanks,

Not a Time Capsule since you are asking in this forum area.
A firewire 800 drive plugged into your imac though will give you loads of space.. just choose a big enough drive.
And Time Machine can then use the TC properly and back up your files from the external drive to the TC.. if you want one. Since the iMac is stationary.. it is not like a laptop where the issue is more difficult to figure out. Speed  on firewire is better than USB by a good margin,, even FW400 is faster than USB in real world tests.

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