LaCie Serial ATA advice

I need to backup by ibook, a PC laptop and a iMacG5. I was checking out LaCie's HD. I am think about purchasing either the LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple (300GB), LaCie d2 Hard Drive Serial ATA (400GB) or the LaCie Ethernet mini-disk (400GB).
I would be running Retrospect from my iBook. Everything is connected by cables through a router. The router is connected to a Road Runner cable. I am not sure what the speed of my connections are.
Which one would be faster and make more sense to have? The LaCie d2 Hard Drive Serial ATA sounds nice since it does not require an AC adaptor. But am I limiting my options since it does not have a USB or Firewire port? I would be stuck if the ATA serial port goes bad on the drive (I think there is only one). What do you do then?
PS -- Has anyone use LaCie's Big Disk (500GB) or the Maxtor OneTouch II 500GB External Firewire. Seems like people general have more problems with 500GB drives than with small ones.
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