Are you sure you even want to boot from the external? Do you plan a separate partition as a boot volume? I just bought the Seagate and am very pleased so far - nice and quiet, great price for value (good reviews). The light on it is a bit much, though you can shield that. I use a sparse image. As long as you have another way to boot the machine (the factory DVDs) an image is flexible. In my case I slapped an old laptop drive into a USB2 case that is bootable for my primary BU.
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