capturing to an external hard drive

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hey all, i have a new laptop with a 160 gig hard drive in a usb 2.0 enclosure. i am thinking about getting a firewire or a usb 2.0 capture card to capture tv shows and analog video. im leaning toward the canopus advc-100. my question is, will external capture cards be able to capture to my external drive? i have an internal 40 gig drive, but its mostly full with programs and stuff, and i want to be able to capture 1 or 2 hour long shows

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anyone?

[SatStorm]

Firewire might work good.
USB 2 in theory is OK also, in praxis I never test it...

Overall, external HDs for capturing use to be problematic, but this might be old news with latest firewire solutions...

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well my problem is that im going to be capturing from my dv cam which uses firewire. i have a usb 2 hard drive now, but i might get one of the usb and firewire hard drive cases. but then if i use the had drive on firewire, how would i capture from my cam?

[KrisS]

What about this thread:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t154336.html

I will probably dedicate old notebook for capturing (plus ADVC-100 and HDD in Firewire enclosure).

Then, encoding on my "regular machine" (overnight )

Anybody using this setup?

KrisS