What size hard drive?

I have about 5 hours of footage that I need to upload and edit into a 15 min short film. I have Final Cut Pro HD on a G5 desktop, and I'm wondering what size external hard drive would be good for this amount of work?

A hard drive is just that...a hard drive. Bare with connections that connect directly to your computer. Now, if you have a G5 or MacPro, then I'll second Chuck's recommendation for that SATA drive. $150 and yo have 500GB. A G5 will have one extra drive bay that you can install that into and you'll be set. A MacPro has 3 additional drive bays for drives. Filling up your internal bays first is always recommended.
An enclosure is a case to put that drive into...for when your internal bays are full. This enclosure then connects to the computer either via USB 2.0, firewire 400, firewire 800 or eSATA. USB connections aren't fast enough for video, FW400 is only good for DV and HDV, FW800 adds DVCPRO HD and uncompressed 8-bit, and eSATA can get you uncompressed SD to uncompressed HD.
The cheapest and best solution is what Chuck said, the 500GB SATA drive. Faster than FW400 or 800...much cheaper...and it slips right into the computer in about 5 min. But, if you need portability, then look for a firewire drive that you can connect to any computer with a firewire connection.
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