Right then, your board does support SATA- and by extension, eSATA (external SATA).
Rather than buying a "prebuilt" external solution, I'd recommend getting
this Vantec enclosure.
It offers the option of either USB (for other/older PCs) or eSATA connectivity (it comes with the breakout panel to install the eSATA on your backplane).
eSATA is definitely what you want to use...your computer will see the drive exactly as if it were an internal drive with the same fast transfer rates (SATAII is 3GB/s compared to USBs 480Mb/s, so basically, 6 times faster...).
This enclosure is also very quiet and nicely built.
Then, you put any regular internal drive you please into it.
I'd beware of the really cheap external boxes that are all around...your data is important.
Also, remember that you will be transferring a lot of files (at least at first) so speed is important.
As an example- I have the enclosure linked above and a 500GB WD drive inside it. I just transferred 385 GB of video files from my RAID array to the external box in 46 minutes (Vista x64).
Another advantage of this setup is that it'll be hot-swappable- i.e., you can turn the external drive OFF/ON at will and Windows will pick it up just like it would a USB flashdrive, no reboots needed.
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