Recommended ext hard disk for Powerbook G4 12in. 1.5gz

Any suggestions?

If you want to be able to boot your system from the external hard drive, recommend a firewire drive. It might have USB connections also, however, to boot you a Powerbook, you need a firewire connection. Also, a firewire connection will provide electrical power to run an external drive that doesn't have a plug-in power adapter. USB, on Powerbooks, doesn't put out enough juice to power many external hard drives, so if you have a USB-only external hard drive, you may have to buy a power adapter for it, or use a powered USB hub. There's also a funky cable that plugs into both USB ports.

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as this model takes a 60 GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
my question is, could I put a Western Digital 250GB 2.5" PATA drive in?
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And will the computer be able to use this drive?
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EyeFilm:
Your computer will support a 2.5" (P)ATA/IDE drive as BGreg posted.
could I put a Western Digital 250GB 2.5" PATA drive in?
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are these newer drives ahh..... backwards compatible?
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