Stacey has an external lacy harddrive. It is great. It did NOT work with firewire, though. She also has a camera on her machine hooked up to firewire. The firewire kept getting confused and tried repeated to write to the camera instead of the harddrive.

It works wonderfully with usb, however. Except for the part where it suddenly became read-only. That was a problem with itunes, I think. We found something online to deal with that.