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A nice HDD

The transfer speeds on USB drives are burst speeds so USB 2 is reasonably slow. If you want a quicker drive from LaCie I'd suggest:

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10330

This has FW800 which is at the moment the fastest available. If your iMac has Thunderbolt soon there will be Thunderbolt drives and that will overshadow FW800. They won't be cheap at first but they will be fast.
 
+1 on the LaCie. Once you use FW800 you can never go back to USB 2.0. I have the 1TB LaCie d2 Quadra and its very fast indeed. I can copy files to/from it at around 90 MB/sec.
 
So I should get a Firewire 800 drive?

I actually was drawn to the other one for the "Porsche Design" but oh well...

The FW800 drive is ver expensive (by my standards) do you know any other ones with better value? (FW800 drives I mean) :)
 
I'd suggest you have a look at Seagate GoFlex external drives. The advantage of this hard drive is in the modular design.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/desktop-hard-drive/

The hard drive have standard sata and power connector and can be slot into base stations with different connectors.

I brought the 3TB version inc a USB 2.0 base station, I already have the Firewire 800 base station to use with the imac and brought another USB 3.0 base station to connect to my ThinkPad. Now my 3TB hard drive can connect to the imac with Firewire, or my ThinkPad with USB 3.0.

Another advantage is the base station also work with any internal hard drives with sata connector.
 
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