Yes but so will an external USB IDE 7200. I bought a 7200rpm IDE drive and stuck it in a firewire enclosure. works fine. Juan On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 01:36 PM, Paul Bravmann wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm getting ready to make the jump from iMovie to FCP. I plan to use > FCP2 on > a iMac G4, and have been told that I need to get an external hard > drive to > capture and store my media. My question: Will one of the new La Cie > 7200 rpm > firewire drives do the trick? > > Thanks for your help, > PHB >