Thanks for the comments guys. Svdl...yes that sounds like roughly what they were suggesting in the shop, or something like it, although they seemed to be talking about transferring the data across onto a new drive? cspear...Yes, I'm a bit confused though as to what they call an "interface" amd what is actually an external audio card. Certainly, I want to make sure that all of this is going to work right with software music programs...recording and playing with multiple tracks. Ideally, also being able to use view on the same computer, so that I can correlate audio and visual, and not have to have a super-weird workflow bust out across two machines...