Hello

I am looking at buying a external drive about 25gb minimum for important files that also may be needed to be accessed by my laptop,i have had a few in the past but they are so slow,whats the fastest one for data transfer???I have had

USB flash drive- slow data transfer and small storage size

Ethernet external drive with ata hard drive- needs power supply and very slow data transfer!

USB external drive with ata hard drive- needs power supply and very slow data transfer!

What are these Firewire drives??? i have a fire wire connecter at the front of my computer.

waldy