O.K. to capture video to external hard drive

[Edward Troxel]

Not at all. I, personally, prefer firewire but have captured to external drives using both.

Edward Troxel

[Dave Petteruto]

Edward,

Thanks for your quick response to my questions.
Have a great Sunday.

Dave P.

[Terry Esslinger]

Take a look at this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/873651

[Jacob Hobbs]

USB 2.0 and Firewire should be okay, as long as you don’t access the drives at the same time as capturing.

eSATA is what I use. Much faster than both USB2 and Firewire 400/800. Same speed as internal SATA.

[Clarkt]

I have been capturing DV via standard Sony Firewire and saving to an external hard drive using USB 2 simultaneously. No problems so far. It may be a little slower than saving to my local drive – but my local drive is full with other stuff.