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MyBook Pro Edition II 1TB
Has anyone used this hard drive? I have heard it is INCREDIBLY noisy and has cooling issues, but I am wondering if this is true. I really don’t have more more money than about $400 dollars to spend on an external HD, but this thing’s memory capacity is just fantastic, even if I use a RAID 1 configuration. The firewire 800 is also a very good thing for me. If you would not recommend this, can you recommend anything in a similar space and price range that would be better?
Thanks,
Alexander Gao
USC School of Cinematic Arts
John C. Hench D.A.D.A. -
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A client of mine brings it over. No noise. If it has internal fans they’re ridiculously quiet. We’ve edited off it for days on end with not a single issue whatsoever. But who knows if it’ll last years and years. They’re so inexpensive these days that my client uses them until there full with a couple projects, then it gets labeled and put on a shelf. It’s all P2 sd and hd stuff so since there aren’t any tapes, the drive gets libraried just like a tape.
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Do you think I should go RAID 0 or RAID 1? How unreliable really is RAID 0?
Thanks,
Alexander Gao
USC School of Cinematic Arts
John C. Hench D.A.D.A. -
RAID 0 is fast, RAID 1 is safe.
RAID 0 not only doubles the risk of data loss, but statistically even quadruples it: If one drive dies, twice the amount of data is lost on both. RAID 1 is much safer than one drive, the probability that both die at the same time is very low. But you’ll have half the capacity only.
What’s the format you are working with?
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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Mostly DV footage, maybe some HDV. But those drives do fill up Quickly, so it’s really tempting not to use the extra 500GB… But hey, extra space can be bought, but valuable data can’t be bought, right? I think I’ll go RAID 1.
Thanks,
Alexander Gao
USC School of Cinematic Arts
John C. Hench D.A.D.A. -
Oh, one more thing…
Is it worth the extra money to get the 1TB external hard drive and use it in RAID 1 mode, rather than just buy a 500GB single-drive external HD?
Thanks,
Alexander Gao
USC School of Cinematic Arts
John C. Hench D.A.D.A. -
If you want the extra safety: yes.
But I’d rather buy a case that makes swapping drives easy and put a copy on the shelf then. The easiest one to change drives comes from Fantec (no screws), Raidsonic or others offer more sturdy housings with frames to swap drives.
A single drive will be enough for DV and HDV, their data rate is the same.
Reagrds,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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LAST question!
If I’m planning on using this external for media and as a capture scratch, should I also run projects from FCP from the external, or should those be saved and run from the computer’s internal hard drive? (Macbook Pro, 5400 rpm internal I believe).
Thanks,
Alexander Gao
USC School of Cinematic Arts
John C. Hench D.A.D.A. -
I’d rather keep the project physically separate from the media files, since the whole work can be reproduced from that information in case of a crash (if you work with TC based logs).
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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The answer is BOTH!
Project files are tiny, but vulnerable. Back them up regularly to a few locations. A USB stick is an ideal ‘last chance’ location, and may save you if your current project file corrupts or is lost.
Ben
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