PocketMatrix

I'm getting a 80GB HD to hook up to my laptop for DVD ripping and stuff... Would you guys suggest the Western Digital 80GB drive w/8mb cache, or the Seagate 80GB w/2mb cache (we're talking IDE drives).

I'm hooking them up to my laptop via firewire.

http://www.ncix.com/canada/productdetail.php?sku=6999

I was going to get that... My firewire port on my laptop is 4pin, so it doesn't supply power to the device (so i need an enclosure with a power supply).

heh, sucks having four pin doesnt it i got a 6pin on my ibook. thats pretty cool though, make sure it has the oxyford bridge, its the best/fastest IDE-FireWire Chipset Bridge.

I'd rather have 4pin than an ibook

The special edition Western Digital "JB" drives are rather nice. I'd probably go for one of those over a Seagate (though Seagate haven't let me down over the years and I still dislike WDs a bit because of their early drives' loose implementation of the IDE spec, which caused endless compatability problems (but that was years ago (I like brackets today))).

Quantums are the drives that I've blown up most (or had die on me), but then they were bought out by Maxtor a while back.

Yes, I would go with Seagate. And never, ever, ever go with Fujitsu, grrrr... My 17GB Fujitsu drive died last night.

Hrmm... I'd probably get the Seagate, too.

I currently run a 60GB Seagate - excellent speed, and great reliability. I've used Seagate for 6 years, and never had a drive die on me.

Or the 200 GB version