Just be careful with external HDD's. If you're doing planetary stuff it can affect the framerate you can capture. You'll end up capturing to the onboard HDD and transferring to the external drive. It's even worse with firewire, I can't use the external disk and the DMK at the same time. Hence the observatory PC has a 500Gb HDD in it. I then transfer to a smaller Firewire external drive to process it on my laptop in the warmth.
Laptop just got a 250Gb HDD put in for $100, it now has plenty of space...
Cheers
Stuart
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