Firewire HDD or IDE?

[VCD GURU]

Hello every1

I have a system i am going to install my canopus advc 50 in.
(Windows XP 256SDRAM 850MHZ celeron).

I have to buy a new HDD for DV capture and since the Firewire once are not so verry much more expensive i am wondering wich 1 would be best.

I have always used IDE hdd's.
SCSI is no use i have read somewhere (same as IDE almost), but then there are firewire..

Is Firewire HDD's External only?

Will they preform better than a IDE hdd in my system?

The new hdd is going to be a capture disc only (slave).

Will the firewire hdd eat up all the bandwith on the 1394 card?

Wich then again could destroy my capture.

Thanks for replies in advance! 8)

[ceminess]

i think firewire are external only...

me personally i would just use an ide

[lechtin]

The following 2 articles will answer most of your questions, especially since they include a test of the same Western Digital drive in IDE and in Firewire interface formats.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030411/index.html

http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030402/index.html

Bottom line, IDE is faster than firewire. On the other hand, an external firewire drive is portable.

I am not aware of any internal firewire HDD, especially since an external drive is just an IDE drive in a firewire enclosure (an interface converts the firewire external interface of the external drive to an internal IDE connection).

As for the external HDD eating up the bandwidth, I can't speak from experience, but I don't think so. The external drives in the article reach over 30MB/s while a DV capture is about 3.5MB/s. There is plenty of room there for both the stream coming from your DV device and to your external HDD.