well, there you are then, even better...and, ehm, I think (THINK - dont shoot me on this) that the title really should have read something like:
Needed: external drive as in "spinning disk in a box" and not an extended USB stick
...so the discussion around IDE and/or SATA was...hehe, irrelevant
Go get yerself an external drive, it may have been formatted in ntfs...as was
mine so, be prepared to format it to EXTx (x being the favorite number)
Happiness...will prevail
Thor