external hard drive choice (fw400 vs fw800)

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hello all!

recent iphone $100 rebate, thinking of getting better productivity in dorm :)

use newest revision of mbp (2.2 c2d, 4gb ram, 120gb 5400rpm, etc) , have chunky ol' maxtor 200gb fw400/usb2.0 external hard drive. looking airport extreme @ first network drive don't have keep plugging in , unplugging (to save space, keep drive stored away until need out).

then, why not portable external hard drive that's bus-powered? love design of g-drive minis , them being bus-powered, felt right choice... problem of choice came up.

want do, ideally, partition external (whichever 1 buy) have 1 backups , storage (movies, music, software, crap, etc) , other actual mac os x bootable volume (or maybe partition whole damn thing, want external bootable). reason want able install , run adobe cs3 off of drive via booting via either fw400 or fw800 intel mac pros in design computer lab (they have adobe cs2). figure best performance fw800, faster fw400 drive? 5400rpm vs 7200rpm? bottleneck in drive speed or transfer speed?


on side note, there way manage whole system + bootable volume backups? want clone mbp onto external, , whatever changes make either 1 able , synchronize them. apps out there can pull off?



bunch! :eek:
 

i've heard if drive slower 5400rpm, firewire800 bit of waste. in technical reviews of hard drive enclosures, fw800 twice fast fw400 using provided drive (ex. wd mybook pro review). if you're using 7200 rpm drive, fw800.
 


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