2nd hard drive buying suggestions for FCE?

I have a 2Ghz dual G5. When downloading HiDef footage from my videocam to FCE 3.5, I about run out of space.
I was thinking of adding a 2nd hard drive.....plenty seem to get an external firewire, but I dread more desk space taken as well as extra cords, especially power cords and another plugin.
I was thinking of adding a 2nd hard drive in the spare internal bay......I don't need to go too hogwild, something in the $200 range isn't overkill......but a raid drive is "right out" as the Brits would say.
Rumor has it the internal should be a serial ATA at 7200 rpms but I have heard SCSI drive are faster for real time editing....
Thoughts and recommendations?

Internal SATA will work great for you. I added a 400GB drive to my system and it's working great. No problems when editing footage either. I also use about 1TB in external firewire storage without any problems. I have two firewire enclosures sitting on top of my G5 tower so they don't take up any desk space.
As far as SCSI goes, technically they are the fastest around especially when striped in a RAID. BUT, they are EXTREMILY expensive for similar storage capacities, more challenging to find, and unless you are editing 35mm or greater film uncompressed, I really don't think they are worth it. If you are editing 35mm film uncompressed then buy a RAID with fiberchannel for connection to your system;-)
Happy editing,
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