Using 2 external drives for final cut pro 7

I have approx. 45hours (prob less after selecting i/o of capture clip) of avchd footage that i need to encode / process as apple proress
I think 2tb fw800 drive may just about hold 30 hours of footage, i have 2x2 tb drives (4tb in total).
I know its pos to use 2 ext. drives, but if i select these two drives to capture, render, will these capture the same file to both drives, or will it capture to hdd1 then when hdd is full, will it automatically start capturing to hdd2 or is the a manual thing, ie i have to wait till hdd1 is nearly full before telling fcp to capture to hdd 2.
When i edit, will it seek/ read the media clips from both hdd1 and 2? ie can i edit with capture files on two drives and create render files on one drive.

will these capture the same file to both drives
FCP will not duplicate the files across both discs, it will capture/render to whichever disc has the most available free space, thereby spreading captures/renders evenly between both discs.
When i edit, will it seek/ read the media clips from both hdd1 and 2? ie can i edit with capture files on two drives and create render files on one drive.
Yes.

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