External Firewire HDD?

[Mint_Sauce]

I'm looking for some way to have really fast hard drives attached to my laptop. I rely on a piece of software which needs fast hard drives to operate well and my laptop 5400 just isn't cutting it.

I was thinking maybe there's a raid external firewire solution available but after doing a search didn't really come up with much.

I'm looking for suggestions on what I could use to get really fast hdd speeds, it's mostly for temp storage while the software processes huge image files so smaller hard drives would be ok, say no lower than 40gb each though.

 

[Mint_Sauce]

Thanks enigmo, I think i've decided to just go the desktop route with some raid business going on. I think all the faffing about with my laptop will end up costing more for less performance. Will use the laptop as a second machine.

Cheers!!