A good anti-shock external drive

Hi,

my first post here. I've searched before I posted, hope I didn't miss anything nor this question has already been posted, if so sorry for boring.

I need to buy an external usb drive, at least 500gb. It has to be rugged as I'll move it around a lot. I saw two hard drives those look pretty good to me, but to be honest I don't have any clue which one is better, neither if there's something else better then these.
Trascend StoreJet 25 http://fwd4.me/0k1U
Buffalo MiniStation Plus Buffalo MiniStation

Now, the main differences I can notice are the following ones: trascend is 2.5 whereas buffalo is 3 (for only 7 bucks more.) On top of that on their Amazon pages I can read about buffalo's warranty but nothing about trascend's warranty.

Any experiences with these drives?

Thanks for any help.

P.S. somehow I cannot link the 500gb buffalo page, it seems that it goes to the 1gb.

(sorry for the long post!)

 

It's not USB 2.5, it's USB 2.0 and 2.5" form factor.

I'm guessing the shock resistant cases are pretty similar.

 

Ops, I've mispelled it was 2.0.
So, if there are no particular differences I'll probably go with the Trascend, unless the usb 3 is really faster. I've no idea as I never used a usb 3.

 

if you have a blue usb port which is usb 3 I'd get the usb 3, the transfer rate is very significant specially if you're transffering gigs of data every week, if however you're doing just small transfers then a usb 2 is more than enough.

note on the buffallo a colleague of mine dropped his, cracked the case (it hitted the floor on the corner) but the hdd survived and no bad sectors when he tested it. (not sure on which model was it though)

 

Thank you very much Geekz, good to know about the USB 3 speed.