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Hard Drives: if you were me…
…what would you buy & where?
with things changing all the time and a myriad of opinions, what and where is the best place to buy drives?
btw, i have a granite hot-swap SATA array w/Tempo-X 8 card.
currently running a pair of hitachi deskstar 400g’s
thank you for your input,
glory to the cow!
e3
e. eric johnson iii
er**@*********es.com
lill creates: founder/executive producer
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I go G-RAID all the way!
Life is linear. Edit life.
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Depends…what formats of video do you edit? Do you plan on editing in the future?
Shane
Alokut Productions
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D’oh!!!
DVCProHD will be the primary format for this project. 10-bit could sneak in, but i’ll probably bring that in DVCProHD.
Seagate?
Maxtor?
Hitachi?
WD?thanks for the help!
e. eric johnson iii
eric@lillcreates.com
lill creates: founder/executive producer
Water Channel: producer/virtual set operator -
As a generality, Seagate and Hitachi make good enduring drives. WD and Maxtor have always been a bit untrustworthy IMHO
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External drives…G-raid firewire 800 all the way. Wouldn’t trust DVCPRO to anything less.
10-bit uncompressed? Then you need a SATA Raid or fibrechannel RAID. I have an internal SATA Raid utilizing Hitachi drives…but several external boxes are out there: Burley, Sonnet 500P, Weibetech SilverSATA V. Then Fibrechannel has Medea, Ciprico Media Vault (formerly Huge systems), Apple XServe RAID.
You can see my internal popsicle stick RAID at my website. The popsicle sticks can be replaced by the G5 Jive cage by Sonnet…
Shane
Alokut Productions
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that popsicle stick RAID is awesome!!!
i have a granite digital dual hot-swap SATA RAID setup now. with the Sonnet Tempo-X 8. sounds like the Seagates or Hitachi drives are the way to go. can you recommend a website or retailer?
thank you,
e3
e. eric johnson iii
eric@lillcreates.com
lill creates: founder/executive producer
Water Channel: producer/virtual set operator -
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thank you shane and everyone who took the time to respond! all great and useful input… now i gotta go buy some popsicles.
glory to the cow!
e3
e. eric johnson iii
eric@lillcreates.com
lill creates: founder/executive producer
Water Channel: producer/virtual set operator -
[CharlieX2] “As a generality, Seagate and Hitachi make good enduring drives. WD and Maxtor have always been a bit untrustworthy IMHO”
Charlie,
This is pure rubbish and it is not supported by empirical data. So, as a generality it is not true, and therefore it is just an opinion.
DRW
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It seems to me Seagate purchased Maxtor about a year ago.
“everything is broken”
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