What kind of storage drive would be best?

I need an external drive for storage. I have the following external ports available:
• Firewire 400
• USB2
• Serial ATA
Does anybody have some advice or recommendation on which drive would be "best?" I won't be using it as a startup drive It will be strictly for storage. Any pros and cons?
Thanks a lot.

Well, I have both Firewire 400 and USB drives with my MDD. I can't say one is really better than the other (except that Firewire sounds more cool to say than USB). Some way Firewire is a bit faster; I'll take their word for it although the difference is not apparent to me.
One advantage to the USB drive would come to play to play if you ever want to connect it to a machine other than the MDD, especially a non-Mac computer. USB ports seem to be a little more, uh, universal in the computer universe. Also, USB drives can work as Airport disks if you were going that route. I don't think Firewire has a chance to connect to a network that way.
You can also get external drives that provide both USB and Firewire connection, though not simultaneously and at an added cost.

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