Hi everyone

I'm running Windows 7 and Reaper on my Dell Inspiron laptop.

It has 3 USB ports - the UX8, mouse and musical keyboard take care of that, and I have an Expresscard with 2 USB ports and a Firewire port.

I was thinking the next step was an external hard drive / card to record the music directly on to, bypassing the hard drive of the machine.

Is this a good way to go?

What should I get to record on to, and connect via Firewire or USB. I'm thinking ideally a fast solid state card, that would probably have to be by USB. Either that or cheaper option standard SATA hard drive via firewire/USB.

I mostly record a track at a time, but got the UX8 cos I anticipate full band recording at some point in the next few months.

Fraser