Richard Starr wrote: --- > Big as you can get. I guess unless you go to firewire, you are limited to 120 > gigabytes, but these can be had for $100 or less these days. It's a good idea > to get a pci ATA card which speeds access to your drive big time. I've had > dropped frames and trouble burning DVDs from the drive I still have running on > the motherboard ide bus. I am running 4 internal drives on my Beige MT > totalling about 300 gigs. What you actually need depends on what you want to > do. If you have a bunch of projects open at the same time, you'll need a mess > of space. > > This is much more than you asked, but there's a shareware program in os X called > OmniDiskSweeper that will look at all your disks and order the files according > to size. I couldn' t believe how many gigabytes of video junk were hidden in my > drives...unused captue and render files by the dozens. When I deleted all this > stuff, it was literally like getting a new drive for free. > > Hope this helps > > Rich > > --
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