What External Drives should I use to work with HD footage?

I just got a new camera that shoots HD and I will be editing weddings with it. I need to figure out how and where to put my HD media that I can work with in Final Cut Pro. I have a Lacie external drive but am not sure if there is a better option for me.

Don't use USB for video. Use FireWire. Even FW400 has plenty of bandwidth to handle HD video; FW800 is even better. If you expect to be compositing 3, 4 or more video clips from the same drive, then FW800 is the way to go, perhaps even a FW800 RAID-0.
USB2 would appear to be fast enough however there is more to it than just the raw speed measured in a lab. The USB protocol cannot keep up with the streaming demands of digital video. It may work for awhile, particularly on very short clips, but somewhere along the line you will run into trouble.
Most good FW drives today support FW800 and FW400. If you are seriously doing weddings and using FCP, don't skimp on your drives - look into GTech, Caldigit, Wiebetch. And get at least one additional drive for backup - you will need it.
And BTW, you're going to need more than 1GB RAM - upgrade to 2GB minimum, 4GB if you can

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