Apogee Duet Fire Wire Hard Drive FW800 Port

Hey everyone. I recently bought the Apogee Duet which is friggin awesome by the way. I am now in need of an external 7200 HD that I will be saving all of my recordings onto.
I've heard that if I plug a FW800 Hard Drive into my MacBook Pro 09 edition, the transfer rate wont be that of FW800 speed with the Apogee Duet attached to the hard drive via the FW400 port on the Hard drive...
The reason I bring this up is there are two versions of the SAME HD im thinking about getting.
1) One is 150 dollars because it only has FW400 and USB 2.0 support
2) The other one is 180 dollars because it has FW800/FW400/USB 2.0/eSATA support.
Would it be advantageous to me at all to get the 180 one if the transfer rate from the MBP to the HD is that of FW800?

I don't know anything about Apogee ..., but by all means buy a FW800 drive. Ignoring Apogee, data transfers will be much faster, and you can make a bootable clone on this drive for activities benefiting from the use of a large fast external). The Buffalo 1TB 7200 RPM can be had at Newegg.com, for example, for less than $140. Buffalo makes good drives.
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