External Hard Drives Recommended for media and scrasj disks?

I a working as a pro, but new to Final Cut Pro. I am wondering which external harddrives which would work best for a scratsj disk and a media disk (two separate).
I am concedering La Cie Rugged drives which are Firewire 800 / 7200 Rpm and do not need any external power suply (it gets the electricity from the mac).
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11135
The Lacie Rugged does not have a fan which makes it silent. I am not sure how it operates under warm conditions though.
I am looking for a mobile solution.
0.) Some other forum suggested that is is important to buy a disk with at least 16MB cache. I am not sure whether the Rugged drive has 16 Mb. Is this important?
1.) I am having concerns whether the La Cie would be rough enough to be "beaten up" as a scratsj drive?
2.) Will the Macbook Pro have enough power to give the two external Rugged drives electricity / power enough?
3.) Will it be less speed efficient to have two Firewire 800 drives on the same machine / same Firewire curcuit?
4.) Are there other mobile solutins for external drives which are better?
5.) Is it better to buy two standard 7200 rpm Firewire 800 disk for this purpose?

Hi Simen
First off, what format are you shooting? DV Pal? or some flavour of HD? and how much do you plan on shooting?
Personally I have used the Lacie rugged drive, FCP and a Powerbook (G4) in a variety of field settings, cold and hot, and it has been fine with DV simple cutting stuff.
I would also say though that given the chance I would use mains powered drives any day, and my preference would be for G-Tech drives not Lacie, they do a "Q" drive which is heat sink cooled (not a fan) which I have found reliable.
I would also suggest getting a FW800 PC card to run your drives from.
Your Macbook will have enough power to run the drives but of course your battery isn't going to last long!
Best
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