External HD and Macbook Pro 2.17

What type of external HD would both back up and boot up the Macbook Pro especially and the iBook?
iBook, I gather, needs Firewire 400; Macbook Pro?
Neptune or Mercury units: does anyone have feedback on them and their software?
Macbook Pro 2.17 15" 1GB iBook G3 dual USB 640mb 10.3.9   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I totally agree with Rajesh in the choice of SuperDuper!. As for drives though, you might want to have a look at the G-Technology drives…
http://www.g-technology.com/
One thing you need to be aware of is that the iBooks require the Apple Partition Map partition scheme where the MacBook Pros require the GUID Partition Table partition scheme. You cannot use both on the one drive. However, there is a way that a bootable PowerPC partition and a bootable Intel partition can co-exist on the one drive. Unfortanately I'm not entirely sure what that is.

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