External Hard Drives... Internally?

Hey guys, I need an external drive for editing with Final Cut Pro (it works much better than capturing video on an internal). So I was wondering, before I ask it on the FCP fora, can Finder/FCP see a second internal HD as an external, and treat it like one?
Thanks!

I'm talking about if and when I get a new Mac Pro (which I hope to do soon). When I said "needs an external drive", I meant "FCP doesn't do as well with capturing to your system disk as with a non-system disk". So to clarify for all, can I pop another drive into one of the Mac Pro's 4 internal bays, and Finder and FCP will treat it as a seperate drive with the benefits of an external (whatever benefits those may be-- as I said, I only know that FCP likes non-system disks better).

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