I use external firewire drives in my work and they work great, when they work. I've had both Maxtor and LaCie drives and they both sometimes lock up my iMac G4 where the only alternative is to turn them off and reboot. I've never lost any data doing this but it can be annoying especially if I'm on a roll in the middle of an edit. Yes, they can be used as another drive except Apple recommends having your program files on your internal hard drive and saved work on the external drive. Another feature I like about the external drives, you can "daisy-link" several drives. That is, each external drive has an in and out port and can be linked together so that when one drive gets full, you can start saving to the next one. I have three drives linked together giving me more drive space for my video edits. Hope this helps. You might also look into something relatively new called USB2 drives. I don't know much about them but supposedly they work just as good as a firewire drive. Ciao! Ted - Head Nut The Peanut Production and Editing Co., Inc. DFW Legal Video Services
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