Macbook Pro 7200rpm or 5400rpm...

[Andy Mees]

excellent choice Grant, not only is eSATA faster than FW800, you will also avoid any potential bus collision issues by separating your video capture protocol and your scratch disk I/O protocol

[Grant Harrington]

Originally Posted by Andy Mees

excellent choice Grant, not only is eSATA faster than FW800, you will also avoid any potential bus collision issues by separating your video capture protocol and your scratch disk I/O protocol

Thanks for the feedback. Being new to eSATA, if I get an exteral drive that has FW400/800 ports in addition the eSATA connections, there won't be any issues with editing the content on a Mac with FW 400 (as all my current drives are FW400 on my editing station). It's simply another way to make the connection to the drive's contents (eSATA, or FW)?

Thanks