external hard drive
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- thenuge
looking for reccomendation on a external hard drive - one that would be fast enough to edit video off of.
thanks
- gdodds0
I've found that even with a firewire 800 drive I've had some issues. I wouldn't go any slower than that if you want to edit video off of the harddrive. I would suggest moving your other files to the external and editing using a local drive.
- flavorful0
thefind: http://www.newstoday.com/pv-an/v…
- acescence0
get an empty enclosure and a seagate or western digital or hitachi drive and put it together yourself
- jpea0
i just bought a icydock external sata enclosure and a 150gb western digital raptor. the speed diff is absolutely amazing. get a raptor and you won't go back.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pr…
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pr…
- thenuge0
thanks guys. what do you think of this thing?
- acescence0
LaCie = bad
- thenuge0
really?
- danthon0
This is great for video.
- acescence0
we bought a bunch of lacie drives for some audio workstations and they all failed in less than a year
- chossy0
use the above graid
I am a professional editor and use these in my location suites and have never been let down they also handle full 4.2.2 playback and uncomresed HD :D.
After spending a couple of months researching HD's for my location suits I decided on the graid. In addition to this I also sometimes use them when my xserve raids are a bit full and I need a quick drive do edit a commercial on and again these are freaking great.
- chossy0
http://www.g-technology.com/Prod…
small amendment...
MAKE SURE you get the Graid system it is not the one danthaln posted.
- danthon0
opps. thanks for the correction chossy. I have the g-raid as well. Lazy googling.
- jpea0
or just get 8 raptor 10k rpm drives and call it a day (or year) (or whatever)...
http://www.barefeats.com/hard45.…
think. an average laptop drive gets about 20Mb/sec. your average 7200rpm desktop drive gets about 35-40Mb/sec. this raid can go at around 550Mb/sec. crazy.