Help with external hdd

I just got a mac mini(intel) 2.0 and i want to add an external hdd. i also want to load windows xp. is there a way to load windows on the external and if so what is the best drive to use.

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You can load and run Windows from an external drive using Parallels Desktop (http://www.parallels.com/) or VMware Fusion (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/) - both of which are commercial products, both of which allow MacOS and Windows to be run at the same time. You cannot, however, run Windows using Apple's own BootCamp, which only allows the system to be booted into either MacOS or Windows, not both at the same time.
Almost any external hard drive will do - though for best performance a firewire drive would be a better choice than a USB device. Typically that would mean a drive with dual FW and USB, since FW alone is not a common feature.

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