WD 500GB external or LaCie 500GB external?

[Colin_da_Killer]

As the topic states, I can't decide which of these 2 hard drives to chose from, so need some help:

Western Digital My Book 500GB Essential USB2.0 External Hard Drive

or

LaCie, Desktop Drive , Design by F.A Porsche, 500GB, 7200RPM, High speed USB

Thanks.

 

[Colin_da_Killer]

Do you have eSATA or a free internal SATA port? If so I'd look at getting one of the IcyBox caddies and plonking a 7200.10 in it.

Doing that will give you far better performance than USB2

No don't have either. I'm not worried about transfer speeds so much.

It has to be realiable and external.