Western Digital My Passport Studio WDMT5000TN Portable Hard Drive - 500GB, USB 2.0, FireWire 400/800, Sliver

Cons: None

Pros: I didn't get mine from NewEgg because I needed now.But Firewire is about twice as fast as USB. Using it on a MBP,Beware this drive is formatted for a MAC. Also I believe you have to install the software that comes on the drive to insurefirewire works. Works fine right now.

Cons: Doesn't work on Firewire 800 or 400. When transferring large files, it will just go to sleep and stop working. However, the computer doesn't realize this. At best, you can force eject it. At worse, it crashes finder and forces you to rebuild your whole Macbook's fire structure. After that, I had enough.

Pros: Sleek form factor. I really like the sliding cover for the ports - keeps dust out when not in use. I also like the activity lights.

Cons: It won't give me a foot massage or quote obscene limericks. Seriously no cons. I'm buying another.

Pros: USB works great as does firewire 800. I haven't tested FW400 as of yet. That said, I'm currently using this drive as the time machine backup drive for my macbook pro as well as the repository for my music files. Despite the problems listed by previous reviewers this has been done almost exclusively via firewire800.

Cons: Doesn't work on the 1394b cable. Sometimes it will work for a while, but on large transfers or extended use it will eventually disappear. USB usually works, but I have an Apple, so I don't want inferior USB connections.

Pros: Beautiful drive, great size, works w/o power cable, dead silent, sexy fuzzy pouch.

Cons: None.

Pros: I have two. One from Newegg. I use both firewire 400 & 800. I have no problems with either. I have a new 17" Mac and a very old 15". I use them for music and photo's. I am satisfied with this product.

Cons: As other people stated, I had issues when i hooked up my firewire. The drive would shut off on its own. I finally just started using usb. So far it stopped a few times during a very large file transfer. i havent had much time to play with it other than that, but if you are paying extra money for firewire, its pointless if it doesnt power it!

Pros: Western digital is a great company, i have never had problems with their POWERED hard drives

Cons: Firewire doesn't work at all !

Pros: Works (slowly) with USB 2.0

Cons: Firewire interface works rarely and sporadically, making the drive useless as a platform for running VMs (which is why I bought it). In addition to the drive suddenly shutting off, it often locks up finder during large file transfers. The forced reboots finally made me give trying to work with the drive at all.

Pros: In theory the small-size/large capacity is a "pro", but since the drive doesn't function well enough to be usable, I'm not sure I can list those as pros.

Cons: Firewire interface quit working after a week, USB continues to work fine.Used Firewire 400 and 800 maybe a dozen times over a few days withoutissue. A week later the drive fails to spin up using Firewire. Tried on anew Mac Mini using FW-800 and older Mini using FW-400. In both casesthe drive starts to spin up then just shuts down. Tried with and withoutWD's Mac drivers installed. Drive continues to work fine using USB.

Pros: Compact size, Powered by USB, Quiet, Works with Apple Time Machine.

Cons: Useless. Overall rating has to be less than zero.

Pros: Nothing

Cons: problems with firewire transfers. it locks up my mac (finder) and i have to reboot often - no problems with USB2. Looking for solution online - no luck yet

Pros: Small size, big capacity, no ext power supply

Cons: non really...just wish the case was made out of aluminum instead of plastic.

Pros: Small, Fast, convenient, reliable, excellent warranty, solid case and good price.

Cons: I bought this one expecting to get faster data speeds through the firewire connects - forget it. I tried 4 pin, 6 pin, 9 pin connectors. None give power to the hard drive. I feel like the extra money spent towards this was wasted. The connectors beyond the USB 2 do not provide power to the hard drive. I even tried getting PCMCIA card with 9 pin cabaility to troubleshoot it - no go. Stay with the USB 2 version of this HDD

Pros: Just compact size and data capacity

Cons: I purchased this drive because of its firewire interface and form factor. I filled the drive with data and then left it connected to my file server and forgot about it, until two weeks later I VNCed into fileserver and saw dozens of folder or file corrupt error messages. Not sure what happened. I could not recover about 300 MBs of data, fortunately it was only backup. So it went back for exchange for a similar drive.

Pros: Solid build, 3 interfaces

Cons: zip

Pros: cable powered.size and speed as the title says. firewire 800storage capacity.I use it on a PC with no problems.

Cons: These are formatted in apple journal ed which is perfect for MAC only use. Firewire 2 hasn't taken off for PC so these aren't many devices that use it. I needed to go from MAC to PC so I had to reformat to NTFS and load drivers for the MAC to support NTFS. If your using it for a PC make sure it's formatted for it or be warned you'll have to spend 10 min reformatting it

Pros: 500 GB in a wallet sized package. No external power and firewire 800. I'm able to transfer 12GB in 5 min realtime, it takes 12 for USB 2.0 and 25 over a 100GB network