Using the B&W firewire interface with your miniDV camcorder will dump about 3.7 megs of data for every second of video. I've been using DigitalOrigins (www.digitalorigin.com) editDV 1.5 software, along with my Sony TRV900 camcorder and the results have been stunning and it's a peice of cake to use. I had to go out and grab a IBM Deskstar 22GXP (22 gig IDE drive) which runs at 7200 rpm and I've been in business ever since! I have a 350 model which comes with a stock 6GB drive, this drive captures at an avarge rate of 14-15MB/sec where the IBM drive is constantly at 24MB/s. Anyway, the MHz is more a factor when rendering video with transitions, etc. So in short, yeah get the highest speed processor your budget will allow.(posted 9109 days ago)Patrick