best bus-powered, external mobile harddrive

[mark2288]

so i'm looking for a small, bus-powered external drive to keep my songs, photos, and parallels OSes on...i went on tigerdirect and looked at several:

Fantom Titanium Mini 80 GB 5400 RPM
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1579169&CatId=0

Seagate Portable External Harddrive 100GB 5400 RPM
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1579169&CatId=0

Western Digital Passport 60 GB 5400 RPM
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1579169&CatId=0

Iomega Silver Edition 60 GB 4200 RPM
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1579169&CatId=0

i'm liking the Seagate. Anyone recommend any other of these or any others?

Thanks in advance.

 

[UnclePaulie]

FireLite

Hi, I'm not familiar with the models you listed, but I can recommend the FireLite 80GB external firewire drive. It's nice and slim and the case has put up with a good amount of abuse so far. They're a bit pricey, but that might be because I bought it from the Apple store.

 

[mark2288]

thanks. i looked it up and found it on staples for only 100

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/s...toreId=10001&ddkey=StaplesZipCodeAdd#desclink