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hard drive for demo reel
I’m looking to buy a new hard drive for my new resume reel. Can any one suggest and external hard drive that is fast and stable. it needs to be 1T or larger…I work in HD and have 5+ years of projects that need to go onto it.
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yea im looking for something that is portable. But basically i need a drive i can copy files to and then bring it home and mirror those files to my home computer.
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Take a look at OWC. I’ve had good luck with their drives. Their Guardian Maximus drive is nice as it has two mirrored drives in one enclosure for redundancy in case one fails.
Unless you’re footage is reliably stored else-where, I’d stay away from any external RAID-0 drives, like the G-RAID or the Elite-AL Pro. They’re fast, but if one drive fails (and your chances are doubled with two drives), you’re screwed.
Lastly, I’d stay away from Lacie. They’re alright for temporary storage or shuttling footage from a shoot, but I’ve seen so many of their drives fail, I won’t really touch them any more.
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On the LaCie firewire front, if you have a single drive (short case) and it fails, you can usually mount it in a new FW enclosure and be up and running again. However, if you have a double drive (long case) and it fails, you’re hosed.
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I’ve heard a lot about LaCies failing, but I’ve had 3 D2s for about 8 years, and a Rugged (which I love) for about a year, and they’re all still working just fine.
I think the Rugged only goes up to 750 GB with a firewire 800 option, the 1TB option being E-Sata and USB 2 only.
I also have 2 Western Digital MyBooks which are still working great after 4 years, but they require an external power source, like the LaCie D2s. -
Thanks Paul… that is a sweet idea… im total going to look into these guys…
Ty
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I have had two of those long lacie drives blow up… but the single shorter ones seem to last forever. I have one at home that is 8 years old and still works.
ty
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ill second the OWC recommendation. I personally have had some problems with the g raids. I have 3 of them on life support, in my cabinet. Luckily I got data off before total failure. I max out my internals
and back up and disconnect my mercury elite drives. I used to love to have all 19 years of my data “live” on firewire 800, ready to go. Over time those g raids just did not, as a whole, want to be on all the time with my CPU. Ultimately they started getting ‘twitchy’…. hahahaha… man, what a nightmare. So I keep my most valuable 4 terabytes of data on my internals with backups manually copied to the OWC mercury elite drives. Not perfect, but affordable. This is not exactly what you asked, but I thought id share my drive experience. Roughly 20 years of it….SuperNova
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