External hard drive compatibility?

technowiz9

I have a dell latitude d600 running xp home and i bought a toshiba 250gb external hard drive and it wouldn't work and said something about the hub? i don't know it was a long time ago.
so my hard drive crashed and i got a new internal drive but w/ only 10 more gb.
i want to buy a new computer but i really just want to get:

Western Digital - My Passport Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive - Midnight Black

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8993164&type=product&id=1218007082970

or

Seagate - 1TB External USB 2.0 Desktop Hard Drive - Black

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9238121&type=product&id=1218065495073

or

Iomega 500GB eGo Helium Portable Hard Drive

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TW026VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw&mco=NjA5MTU4MQ

It MUST I REPEAT MUST be able to work with my dell.
what is the best 4 themoney, which is more reliable and doesn't overheat and which one will i have no troubles with?

plz answer soon and thx in advance!!!!!!

Answer
Is it connected by eSATA or USB.

if connected by eSATA then you need to Partition the External HDD.

don't buy from best buy just purchase from www.newegg.com

Is the Seagate 500GB external HDD SATA?

Deedee

and will it work with this.

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/2144/1411/-/9752949/Seagate-Expansion-500GB-External-USB-Desktop-Hard-Drive/Product.html?searchtype=genre

http://www.envizage.com/products/sata-black-sumvision-apex--3.5-black-sata-external-hard-drive-caddy-enclosure-usb-and-esata.html


it says it's for SATA hard drives, i'm just not sure it's a SATA?

Answer
The seagate is not SATA - its USB interface.
The other one is eSATA (external SATA) and USB.

They will both work on a standard PC with USB ports.
The second one has the option of working with eSATA - buy your computer must have an eSATA port to use that.

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