• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Internal Mirrored Drives

  Posted by David Schaeffler on May 7, 2008 at 6:49 pm

  I teach video production and run an editing lab with 10 FCP workstations. I have students work off external firewire hard drives and it works great until a drive goes down. We were considering moving to internal “mirrored” drives so that we will always have a back up. Will this work?

  Tom Meegan replied 18 years ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  May 7, 2008 at 7:24 pm

  David,

  Mirroring will work if you have two identical drives, however both drive throughput and drive size are essentially cut in half.

  David

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  Zane Barker

  May 8, 2008 at 3:36 am

  I would say that as part of the teaching you should cover logging and capturing. Then if a drive goes bad you can recapture the video. Just imply have then keep the project file on internal drive (and it would not hurt to have them back up the project file to USB flash drive)

  There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
  Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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  Tom Meegan

  May 9, 2008 at 9:54 am

  I agree that log and capture as well as batch capture are very important work flows to teach.

  However, the low price of drives make recapture in case of media drive loss less useful.

  The price of the extra drive pays for itself many times over the first time you avoid recapturing 15 hours of footage from tape.

  Additionally, more and more work flows do not use tape. In these cases, an off line back up drive, with some redundancy built in, is essential.

  Best,

  Tom

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