FW400 vs. Express card FW800? For Pro Tools?

Has anyone read anything at all about spec comparisons for sustained throughput on FW800 thru an Express Card? Will it end up being much faster than the stock FW400 connection?
If anyone has seen any articles, etc. I'm more than interested. I'd like to make sure that I don't blow a chunk of $$ on a 400 drive if the 800/Express card will give me more digital tracks of audio. I'll be limited to 48 tracks in Pro Tools anyway either way. Just don't have a lot of experience with the FW drives. Was running 7,200 SATA on the old PC.

I used to use this:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10511
With:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10482
On my D*ll laptop (MBP on order now though and i have to say the difference between FW800 and both FW400 and USB2.0 was quite noticeable when rendering video to it (using Premiere Pro 1.5) So i would say that if you can afford it... do it, it'll probably pay for itself quite quickly if you're a professional user.
Or if you want to go hardcore..
Get this:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vydeo-Announces-Dual-Port-eSATA-ExpressCard-34-Fo r-MacBook-Pro-21050.shtml
and use it with this:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10490
Should cover you for pretty much everything for a while to come

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