You can buy an external Firewire hard drive enclosure, and then buy any kind of hard drive you want for it. That will probably be cheaper than buying a pre-built external FW HD anyway.
I've had good luck with both Maxtor and WD FW drives. But, lately I've been buying my external drives from <a href="http://www.transintl.com"; target="_blank">transintl.com</a>. Decent prices, FireWire/USB 2/1.1 (combo) interfaces, and I personally like the look of them:
I've also bought drives and FW enclosures seperately and put them together myself, but, by buying this way you might save 10 bucks, but also might have to go through the trauma of figuring out if it's a screwed drive or enclosure if something goes *boink*.
[oh yea, they've also got a cool little blue 'HAL' light on top too ]
It's been taken to bits more times than I care to remember, since I have piles of hard drives I, um "acquired" round here that get used for various backup/archiving/storage/emergency booting purposes. Currently it has the 20GB Western Digital thing that was originally in my Cube inside, but I bought it with a 40GB since that was actually cheaper than buying the two separately. Maybe I'll get a 120GB one...
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set up - no problem
the coolest thing IMHO is when i close my laptop, the HD goes to sleep too.
it's silent and fast... oh and it has a really nice blue light (very HAL9000-esk) on the front for those (me) who like such things.
I am also thinking of getting the Lacie, but the WD one is faster, I think.
I've also bought drives and FW enclosures seperately and put them together myself, but, by buying this way you might save 10 bucks, but also might have to go through the trauma of figuring out if it's a screwed drive or enclosure if something goes *boink*.
[oh yea, they've also got a cool little blue 'HAL' light on top too
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It's been taken to bits more times than I care to remember, since I have piles of hard drives I, um "acquired" round here that get used for various backup/archiving/storage/emergency booting purposes. Currently it has the 20GB Western Digital thing that was originally in my Cube inside, but I bought it with a 40GB since that was actually cheaper than buying the two separately. Maybe I'll get a 120GB one...