• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  PowerMac Second HD for FCP

  Posted by Monty Pavement on November 9, 2005 at 1:10 pm

  Firstly, apologies if this is an old question, but I had a look through previous posts and couldn’t find anything.

  Anyway. I currently have a PowerMac Dual 2.7, 3 Gig of memory, and a 400Gig HD.

  I want to add another HD, partly as a scratch disk for FCP, but am unsure whether to just get any 7200rpm SATA drive, or if certain makes and models have proven to perform better with FCP.

  All help would be appreciated! (Oh, and if anyone is going to post links to places selling suitable models cheap, please bear in mind that I am based in the UK)

  Derek Woods replied 20 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  November 9, 2005 at 2:09 pm

  I’ve never been a fan of internal drives for scratch disks. I have a second drive in my G5, but I only use it for graphic files.

  I recommend external units like the G-RAID’s and Lacie Big Disk series.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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  Wilhelm Beck

  November 9, 2005 at 5:14 pm

  Walter;

  You seem to having a different experience than me on this.

  I
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  Derek Woods

  November 9, 2005 at 5:48 pm

  i just bought a 250 gig diamand max 10 drive(16mbcache)for internal scratch
  89 bucks!
  awesome drive, just finished a 5 hr project without a hiccup
  I actually trust an internal drive for a project like this because it was going straight to dvd-

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