Help choosing a 2.5" external drive...

[Kingsly]

I am going out of town this summer and need a scratch disk for some editing I need to do (and perhaps a few games? 😀 )
Apparently, the world's HDD manufactures have dumped FireWire and warmly embraced USB 2.0.
My first question is... Is USB 2.0 sufficient speed for a scratch disk?
If not, can someone suggest a good 2.5" FW drive that is inexpensive (under $150 would be great)

Finally, How much space do you think I need? I have two big scratch disks at home, and the 2.5 would be more of a 'travel' disk for one or two projects and a small partition for windows games.

 

[prostuff1]

Could you build your own??

Here are some 2.5 in enclosures i found on newegg.

Here are some notebook hard drives that can fit in the enclosures.

 

[livingfortoday]

Lacie has some good refurbs if you're OK with USB in that price range:
100GB 5400RPM USB 2.0 Mobile, Designed by F.A. Porsche (RECON) - $149.99

That ain't too shabby, though I would just wait and see if any of their FW drives end up on there.

 

[Mord]

usb sucks for video, it's unusable get a firewire one.

 

[lexus]

Try the Lacie rugged you can get it in 80gb or 100gb 5400 rpm and it has Firewire 800 / 400 and USB and does not need to be powered.

 

[Danksi]

I've just ordered this from Macally, since I have a spare 60Gb 4200 notebook drive, after upgrading my wife's XP notebook HD.

Nice to have USB2 and Firewire connections - plus it'll allow daisy chaining, potentially to a video-camera for mobile capturing.

I've used both USB2 and Firewire for SD/mini-DV video capture, without any problems. I prefer firewire though, as it's supposed to manage bandwidth more effcientiently then USB2.

 

[Kingsly]

Alrighty, so I guess USB 2.0 is out of the question. I am interested in the LaCie drives... I just haven't a clue how much space I'm going to need.
I am guessing no less than 60GB, right?