Firewire Cables: 6-pin stay in better than 4-pin?

Noobish Question of the week #2 for me. Thank you for your
patience. :-)

I have a 2 year old Dell XPS gaming laptop which I'm going to use to
edit home travel video footage. Running WinXP with the NVIDIA GeForce
Go 6800, 2ghz processor, 2gig RAM. I got an external firewire hard
drive (320gig) to hold the video.

I am using the Sony Vegas consumer editing software.

Anyway so far my laptop seems burly enough to crunch the video.

My Firewire connection is 4-pin. I like to sit on the couch with the
computer on my lap and I notice the 4-pin connector likes to wiggle
loose pretty easily while I'm sitting here. I'm not even sure if
during the editing process, once the video is put in the media bin or
whatever you call it, if the software needs to access the external
drive very frequently.

My question is if I need to worry about the Firewire cable coming
loose during editing, as long as it's not during rendering or other
activity that uses the raw footage from the E drive and writes to the
E drive.

Question 2 is whether the 6-pin firewire cables like to stay in
better. I can always get an adapter card with a 6-pin hole and get a
different cable. Seems like a waste of money but I know I will do most
of my editing sitting here on the ol' couch. :-)

Thanks for any replies!

Chris

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