David Lee King: "I'd like to move to doing more editing of videos and music off of an external hard drive..."
Hi David: Well, for whatever its worth, I'd suggest NOT editing directly from an external but rather using one (or more) for archival purposes. Lots of reasons for this yet suffice it to say; unless you utilize Firewire or perhaps USB 3.0 cutting speed & flow may be affected (depending on your system, of course). Although Western Digital has been poo-poo'd on the Net, it's worth noting that EVERY hard drive manufacture has failures. WD's, however, are by and large dependable drives used by mainstream industry players for this reason. That said; the Western Digital 1TB/2TB My Book Essential drives are fine for archrivals. We use the 1TB model (RAD emulated in quad - split, 2 & 2) because XP only recognizes up to 1-Terabyte, but one could theoretically partition the 2TB unit to overcome this XP issue. These units can be had for as little as $99/$149 US, respectively, via online sources. Even so one may be able to find lower pricing by shopping around. Hope this helps. Mark Villaseñor, http://www.TailTrex.tv Canine Adventures For Charity - sm http://www.SOAR508.org
