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media on fcp drive
I have a 6 year old power mac G5, running final cut pro 5. The internal 250 gig media drive crashed. fortunately I had it backed up. I’ve since transferred the media files to my fcp start-up drive. How long can I run it like this? Am I asking for problems having these on the same drive?
Thanks for any input you can offer.
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A new 250GB drive is less than $50 with shipping included. A 1TB drive can be had for less than $100!!
I don’t advocate this for a security standpoint, but rather just performance boost. If a drive is going to fail, its going to fail. Doesn’t matter if its your “system” drive by itself or with a bunch of media on it too.
Separate drives are used for performance. Backup copies are for “safety”.
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http://www.technical-t.comps-None of my comments are meant to be gospel. Otherwise, I would write a book that provided all the cold, hard, fast answers that everyone assumes are out there. These are the things that I have found to work well with my shooting habits and workflow. Always try things out for yourself and deduce the best workflow for you.
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HD have a limit, the same than you. You can cope with a certain number of tasks in parallel. If you take too many tasks at the same time, you know what happens.
The main hard disk have plenty of work to do just dealing with the System and the applications (hundred of thousands of files and folders), thousands of process running at the same time.
If you give him more tasks to do, will do it, but everything more slow. A HD have only one Head to read and write. It can not be in two place at the same times.
Cheers,
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Thank you both, I now have a clear idea of what i need to do. Can a non-techie replace this drive herself or leave that to a professional?
Barbara -
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Thanks. Any chance you can point me in the direction of a site that explains how and what kind of drive?
Appreciate your help!
Barbara
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