available firewire 2.5" external hard drives

hey guys, i have been doing a lot of research and i am looking for a 320-500gb 2.5" external hard drive, unless a 3.5" provides a lot more performance. i have a MacBook Pro and would like to take advantage of the firewire ports, so i am looking for a complete (enclosure and HDD) external that has firewire ports and even better than that would be ones that have firewire 800, i originally thought it would of been the 5400rpm speed that would of been the bottleneck for these drives but i saw benchmarks showing the great advantages of firewire over usb, im not really interested in a esata though.

anyway the only 2.5" externals i have seen with firewire 800 are the Western Digital Passport Studio drives and i am just wondering if there are any others, especially if they are cheaper, i will be buying the drive off eba

thanks guys

ps. im planning on running windows off it, am i going to see any sort of performance hit, is firewire 800 possibly faster than sata?

 

eSATA is a pain by the looks of things. i certainly wouldnt want to use one on a notebook. if im not mistaken; eSATA is not hot-swapable.

yeah, the only one i know with FW800 is the WD passport studio.
if i was looking for FW800 2.5" drive, that drive would certainly be on top of my list. i usually stick with WD and Seagate drives.

im not sure if you can run windows from external HDD though.

 

whoops, i just noticed i posted this in the wrong forum, admin can you move this thread to "Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades" or "Accessories" please?
sorry