Yes, you should be able to reuse the ATA/FireWire interface. I hear more complaints about Maxtor than anything else, but I still ended up with two Maxtor drives, a DiamondMax Plus 60GB and a DiamondMax 10 300GB. The 60 is a few years old, and it hasn't had any catastrophic failures, but has corrupted a number of sectors. The 300 has had no problems at all, but it's less than a year old. I would probably pick whichever Fry's had the special on that week.
