I'd go with the velociraptor from western digital. I think its the best right now.
The fastest type of external hard drive would be a external 3.0 USB hard drive.
As of Sept.2009 the Barracuda® XT from the Seagate Technology is the world's fastest desktop hard drive.
calucator!!!!
Plug it into the computer.
USB 3.0 port
The fastest way to transfer files from your computer to an external hard drive would be with a firewire cable. They are much faster than USB cables.
samsung 332 is the fastest.
There isnt a special "photoshop" hard drive out there. What you are going to look for is the biggest buffer, fastest rotation, and fastest read/write times. Stay away from PATA drives, look for SATA drives with the 3.0Gbit transfer rating. Also keep in mind that your system also has a part in dealing with large files. If you have a celeron or sempron, your going to have poor performance from even the best hard drive.
The top of the line mass storage in the MacBook Pro is the 768 Gigabyte solid state drive. It must be ordered at the time of purchase since it is a custom add-on.
Serial port is by far the fastest port. It is so fast that it is used in modern computer to connect hard drive to motherboard. Current generation of serial port is SATA 6Gpbs.
RAID 0 is generally the fastest RAID level. It uses two hard drives at the same time, with each drive sending and receiving different data. The data is usually "striped."
a hard drive failure is when your hard drive stops working...