External harddrive suggestion to boost my computer...

Hello,
I'm stuck at a standstill with my project because I'm all out of memory. I'm dealing with 32 hours of footage. I tend to put most of it on the computer before trimming it down, just to see what I'm working with. I still have roughly 20 hours of footage to sort through.
A friend recommended I get a Terrabyte external drive. Yes? No? Models/brand suggestions? I'm working on a new MacPro.

Unless you need RAID for speed (or backup: mirrors, Raid 5, etc.), I'd go with internal; you can get up to 1.5TB drives from Seagate at MacSales.com for about $160. I've used them (at least the ATA bare drives) and they work fine for me.
For external (not raid: for that, Caldigit is the right answer), I usually get Mercury Elite Pro drives with Quad interfaces (future proof: USB 2, FW800, FW400, eSata) and use FW800. Again, 1.5TB for $260.
I've bee using internal Sata drives on my G5 Quad and external FW800 for ProRes 422 (1440x1080p30) and up to three streams of multi-clip without incident; but that's pushing it and I suspect that for real ProRes multistream use, a Raid of some sort is needed (see CalDigit).
Eddie O

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