Working on an external drive

1. What should I look for when looking for an external drive to capture to and edit from?
2. When working with the external drive, do I just need to Set the Scratch Disk, Video Capture, Audio Capture, Video Render, and Audio Render to the root of the external drive, or should I make a folder on it and Set it to this? Is there anything else that should be done?
Thanks.

Hi again Steve,
if you are only editing DV and HDV then a FW400 or better FW800 is what you are looking for.
Two good ones:
http://www.CalDigit.com/FireWireVR.asp
http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-RAID2.cfm
For more demanding formats like uncompressed SD, HD etc. you are looking for something like eSATA drives.
(Look into the other pages of the web site I suggested for good models)
See the link below for help in setting up your scratch disk:
http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-RAID2.cfm
Best,
G

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