I recently was in the same situation (although more with uncompressed .avi footage), and needed something that could take everything from audio, to video, to photos without issue. I ended up with the Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 500 gigabyte which ran me $120 (a great deal when compared to others). I'm not sure if it has the NTSF file system for Vista Ultimate, but I know it is compatible with Vista and is 7200RPM. You can probably check online to find out everything though. It is connected via USB 2.0, which will leave you with the extra firewire in case you need to plug something else in at the same time. In terms of quality I haven't had any issues with mine, and am very pleased all around. The setup was literally just plugging it in, no cd or patches were needed. I checked on the price, and actually found one going for $110 here: link removed
Best of luck!
-nocarsgo

Technical note:
You don't need it to come with NTFS. Before you put anything on it, you can use Vista or some tool to format it to NTFS. This WILL screw up all your data on it, so as I said, do it while it's empty.

Codemonkey wrote: Technical note:
You don't need it to come with NTFS. Before you put anything on it, you can use Vista or some tool to format it to NTFS. This WILL screw up all your data on it, so as I said, do it while it's empty.

Oh, well then there you go!

Glyph seems to be pretty trustworthy - they have a nice chart [="http://glyphtech.com/site/support/trackcount.htmlurl"]here[/]="http://glyphtech.co…"]here[/] that helps out with their capabilities.

I think their warranty is pretty nice, too.

I would recommend checking the Digi User forum for compatability. They are VERY explicit based on what they have tested. It doesn't mean that others won't work, but if you stick to their hardward compatability list you can be SURE it works and works well.

Phil

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=54&itemid=23954