[P1] suggested external firewire hard drives?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, MarJo wrote:

> My needs are simple but the LaCie pocket hard drive which is
> both Firewire and USB has been wonderful.  Mine is 20 Gb but
> the drive is available in 60 Gb for about $450.  

It seems people are selling more or less sturdy 3.5" Al IEEE 1394/USB 2.0
cases for about $100. A 160 GByte 3.5" IDE Maxtor is about $200.

The only minus is that you can't run it off iBook's Firewire, but won't 
the runtime be greatly reduced by that so that you'd need to run tethered, 
anyway?