Recommend me a External HD for Video editing + backing up.

I just purchased a 1 TB seagate freeagent pro and the thing will not mount, disk utility does not see it and it's a bit annoying.
1. Can you guys recommend me a good 1tb external HD with firewire 800 for under $250? I've only only seen the firewire 400 at this price.
2. Can I use the same drive I use for video editing for Time Machine as well? Sorry for the noob question but I'm a noob.
Thanks.

Hello again Dave
I forgot to address your second question re Time Machine.
Time machine sets up a folder on your external drive called Backups.backupdb. This is where all the backups that Time Machine makes are stored. On one of my OWC Mercury drives I have a partition the same size as my internal drive set up for this folder and that partition is what Time Machine uses. The rest of that drive is used for a bootable backup of my internal drive which was made using SuperDuper. So I have two distinct partitions, one of which is exclusively for TM. I've seen posts elsewhere on these forums that state that as long as you don't disturb the Backups.backupdb folder on your external drive you can put other things on it, such as your video editing files, without making separate partitions. That's assuming that your drive has plenty of room available for both. I personally think it's safer to have separate partitions for these purposes.
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