Can you capture to a Firewire Harddrive?

[Steendahl]

I have a PII 400 mhz computer with win98se 128mhz ram...
PROBBLEM>>>12 Gig HD.
I read on a few firewire card boxes in the store today that capturing requires 4Gig per 20 min of finished video... so I decided not to buy a firewire card just yet.
I noticed that many places sell Firewrie Harddrives from 40 to 80 gig that include the Firewire card and I was thinking this may be a good road for me to go down... BUT I want to make sure you can capture to the firewire HD. I noticed that the Firewire HD does not look like it can run programs... just store stuff? is this right? so can it capture? I figure that it will either be the best setup possible or it will just be flat out impossible but I need to know before I even think about convincing the wife that I need to spend the money.

[Steendahl]

(128mb ram... sorry)

[JohnT]

I have a 20Gbyte firewire harddisk, and it can be used exactly like an internal harddisk, including running programs off it. I capture video to it using a Dazzle USB device.

[giarc]

I have 80gig firewire hd and it works well. I have noticed
less frames are dropped if I capture to c drive then move though but I only lose about 220 frames in 2 hour show.

[Steendahl]

just wondering what kind of access time you have on your drives??? the one I am looking at is 20 gig and has an... average access time: 9ms to 9.5ms thru Firewire 14.2ms, Data transfer rate: Up to 18.5Mb/sec.
as per the specs. as I am new to firewire I just don't know.. are they all going to be the same??

Thanks for the help so far... I definatly will be going this route rather than giving up completely... now I just need to start working on my wife.
matt