Best firewire exterior disk drive 500G for macpro?

hello, i was wondering if any of you has a firewire exterior disk drive 500G that they would recommend?
thanx
sandrine
my beast:
Machine Name: Mac Pro
Machine Model: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
** soon to have 4GB in Memory

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