Looking for an external portable harddrive for my laptop

I just finished shopping for this and buying one today. Here were my candidates:

Iomega 120 GB Desktop Hard Drive $171.04

Pros: Price, plug and play (like all the others I will link), Norton Ghost software

Cons: Fan noise, no power switch

Iomega 250 GB USB/Firewire Desktop $276.99

Same pros and cons as above, but a lot more space.

Seagate Technology 200 GB USB 2.0 and FireWire External Drive $269.99

This is what I bought, the main pro over the others being the power switch. The main con is that it comes with worse drive backup software.

The page says it's not available but that's not true. I just bought it.

Summary:

The software is not needed, if you have a recent OS (probably anything after 98) it will plug and play. I personally won't install any of the backup software and just use it as an additional drive to hold Able2Know backups and tote files between computers (work/home etc).

The fan noise/power switch issue is probably moot if the drive will not be near your bed when you sleep, or if you don't mind unplugging it.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, but I was looking for something for my laptop, and all of those seem to be for desktop. And a mere 20 or 30 gigs will probably be just fine.

I purchased the Maxtor 80gig for $95.00 that is USB1.1 and USB2.0 it's ok but I was in a hurry and desperate.

I forgot now that I replaced my C Drive also - I really like it a lot. I did a lot of C&P to the maxtor due to errors in my OS that would not let me use other back-up programs.

I own (and purchased the drive for) a laptop. I've never heard of an external HD that is "for a desktop".