Looking for a hard drive...

I am looking at this for my main external hard drive:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagentpro_datamovers/
Does this look like it would be a good one for editing film?
Hammo

There did not seem to much in the way of specs on the site. It does have two firewire ports, that's a good start.
There is a fair bit of talk about externals on this forum. Try a search.
Here's one to start of:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=4153613
Al

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