Buss powered hard drives

[perceive]

Does anyone have any experience with these? Any recommendations? Most seem to be 5400rpm.

I am looking at getting an external hard drive for use on the train for keeping my protools sessions on. these will be reasonably light usage - playback only etc..
I use a macbook pro and am looking for a firewire or firewire 800 solution.
The soundcard is a mbox2 mini so hopefully won't clash with a firewire hard drive.

PS please dont recommend glyph - they may be the best but at $500+ locally they come at a price that is more than a mere convenience option than I am looking at.


TIA!

[soul]

I just got a lacie rugged 160gb. seems that sessions are now slower to react, quicker to crash (run out of processing power). not sure if it is my laptop cpu (which is very old - G4 867mhz, dont laugh). i also looked for a 7200 bus powered drive but couldnt find one. This gets me by with the tasks that i need to perform on my laptop, and one less thing to plug in the wall

[perceive]

How many tracks are you able to get away with?
I expected that sessions would be slower to start - not much of an issue as it is a playback only setup ..

is any one else using these serts of drives and can comment?

[myke2242]

im running a Lacie rugged with a Macbook Pro on FW 800. I can playback HDV picture and about 10 tracks. it can be a little sluggish at times but for the most part it does a good job for the high demand.

[wooferbitch]

I use OWC 7200 bus powered FW portable drives. They work fine day in and day out, as a portable work and transfer drive. I never use the power supply..just plug in and go

I also have the Lacie rugged..but the OWC's win on price. I used to build the drive ( case..drive etc. ) but it's not worth it now.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go


stick to the dual interface unless you need Esata