Updating Speedtouch 585 DNS settings

I'm currently trying out Google's new DNS service by altering the DNS settings of my Speedtouch 585. This is more a note to myself in case I need to refer to it in the future but might be useful to anyone else who has the same hardware. To log in…

What external hard drive do you use?

I'm currently in the market for a external hard-drive with about 250-300GB of storage that I can also boot my mac from in an emergency (so it'll need to have firewire). I've looked at the usual suspects, Lacie, iomega but nothing stands out. Let me know what your recommendations are.…