[mythtv-users] Laptop Harddrive speed, capacity

[Brandon Sherman]

Hullo,

In my continuing plot to create a MythTV box out of an old laptop, I  
am now eyeing the hard drive.  It is a standard 2.5" drive of unknown  
speed (I'd guess 5400, no more) and 40GB of space.  I'm looking at  
one of these: http://oss.wischip.com/  Which can give me MPEG-2,  
MPEG-4, and DivX.
Do I need to get another hard drive?  The PlextorX will be connecting  
through a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card, and I'm not sure if a USB 2.0 hard  
disk would be good because of the bus bottleneck issue.

There  is a 4-pin FireWire port on the computer, but nothing I've  
seen uses it (aside from cameras).

Any suggestions on the drive?

Thanks,
Brandon