Can I use FS-3 with any FireWire external disk drive?
Yes. You can use FS-3 with virtually any DV (read/write) capable FireWire hard disk drive. External FireWire disk drives connect to the HDD I/O port on the rear panel of FS-3. As a rule of thumb, the drive should be capable of reading/writing at least 7MB/s and relatively fast access time to work with the FS-3 (at most 10-12 milliseconds). It is highly recommended that you first check your NLE systems disk drive requirements before using a particular disk drive. The drive must be first partitioned as a FAT32 volume to work with FS-3 (even if you intend to use the drive on a Macintosh or other computer system later. Partitioning and formatting utilities are incorporated in the FS-3.
