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laptop hard drive speed for Premiere pro
Is 7200rpm hard drive speed essential in a laptop using Prem Pro 2.0
or would Sata 5400rpm be okAlternatively would external usb drive be fast enough.
Thanks
Vidman New Zealand
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7 Replies
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For capturing with DV Rack or OnLocation, 5.400 is enough. For editing 7.200 is the minimum. Never use a USB external for editing, it is OK for backup, but that is about it. For editing get eSATA disks. Also have a look at the minimum requirements as indicated on the Adobe website.
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Are you talking about a single drive laptop or one that can hold a second drive?
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Though it is frowned on by some, USB drives can be used for cutting. I have over 50 television shows that were made on one set up with the raw video being stored on an external USB drives. The esatas kept having compatibility and durability issues so it just worked out this way. I say this because depending on what you are cutting you may find what works for you may be allot less than what some will recommend.
Thank You for your input!
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[GinsuAce] “The esatas kept having compatibility and durability issues”
Do you know what specific problems eSATAs have? or where some info is listed?
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If you want to get from A to B and are happy to do that in a 1950 Volkswagen Beetle (comparable to USB), you will get there reliably. If you want to use a new Volkswagen Passat (comparable to eSATA), it will get you there faster, in more comfort and with better fuel economy and less pollution. The choice is yours.
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The esata drives had issues causing the computers not to boot correctly. We ended up trying it on three separate systems. When I got it to boot correctly after shooting options all the way up to tier 3 support and trying exchanged drives it would cause issues with peripheral items not working such as DVD Burners etc and twice the computers needed to be reformatted but could not be recovered because they got locked up. Two brand new HP XW8400 workstations were shipped back before the drives were isolated as the problem. All of this was a real pain. We got to know seagate tech reps, hey after the first day or so we even got to talk to Americans but the problem never got solved, after 6 months we just ended up dumping the drives for store credit. I also found that the promised speeds never materialized (5 times the speed of USB 2.0 in the real world seems like a campaign promise from my experience and from talking to others.) and since I had deadlines I just kept the WB My Book Pro covering the raw video. I realize it is a bit pedestrian but it is rock solid for that system and I have never had an issue cutting 80 minute Multicam SD Timelines into television episodes. That being typed or said, I am not sour to the technology at all, Mr. Millard is very knowledgeable on these technologies. I just wanted to say that USB can be used depending on what you are looking to edit. I will be looking into some new drives soon and when I do I will look towards an esata solution because better performance is performance, but for me it will not be Seagate and it will be proven on a second machine before the switch is fully made. I like new and shiny but I like solid reliability more.
Best of Luck
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[GinsuAce] “The esata drives had issues causing the computers not to boot correctly. We ended up trying it on three separate systems. When I got it to boot correctly after shooting options all the way up to tier 3 support and trying exchanged drives it would cause issues with peripheral items not working such as DVD Burners etc and twice the computers needed to be reformatted but could not be recovered because they got locked up. Two brand new HP XW8400 workstations were shipped back before the drives were isolated as the problem.”
This is personal experience, I wanted to know if it was a general occurance with other people, if you were having problems with HP I can see it, Here is my experience with eSATA, I use 500gig Maxtor SATA II with KingWin eSATA enclosures, My desktops both have 4 SATA ports, I use two for onboard SATA drives and the other two I use a SATA to eSATA adapter bracket($7) so I can plug eSATA drives into the onBoard SATA ports, on a HP MCE laptop I have a Express Card eSATA adapter with two ports, I hot swap drives between all three machines with no problems I can use the Laptop for HDV/DV capture while using the other machines for processing, none of the eSATA are used for booting, the desktops are generic DIYs, the laptop I had to run a couple of de-crapifier programs to clear out the HP crapola to get it to work right, once I got rid of the HP stuff and pared down the Media Center junk everything hums along fine. The OS sata drive on the laptop only gets 30MB/s, the second onboard SATA drive get 45MB/s, the express card eSATA drives are all 70MB/s average.
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