GarageBand, mac mini, fw audio and external storage

Hi everyone,
My mini's internal hard drive has filled up and I'm now looking for an appropriate external drive to use with GarageBand. I've tried the LaCie mini hub (connected through firewire), but unfortunately it didn't work well in chain with the Miglia HarmonyAudio interface (also firewire), which I use for recording. Since my mini only has one firewire port, I have to chain them together and that seems to cause problems. (For details see my previously posted question:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1162254&tstart=0 )
I've ended up sending the hard drive back to Apple Store, because the two devices would only work together with some ugly workarounds.
Now I'm asking for your experiences:
1. Have you got a similar set-up that works for you?
2. What's a good hard drive for recording purposes?
3. It was suggested that a firewire hub might solve the problem – has anybody tried such a set-up?
4. Have you any general advice to offer?
5. Any alternative solutions I might not have thought of?
Any kind of helpful advice and comments welcome!
cheers
Hendrik

The choice is clear to me: go with the SSD and use the external drive for your video. USB3 is plenty fast enough (so the actual drive will be the limiting factor, not the connection).
You should not store your video in the system drive anyway, so you'd be well advised to use an external, no matter what the internal drive is. And once you get used to an SSD as your system drive, you'll wonder how you could have lived without one for so long :-)

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