500GB+ portable bus-powered FW800 drive?

[Ed Dooley]

Actually Walter, my math may be off, but there is a difference in reliability between a single drive and a 2 drive RAID0. Twice as many drives, each with a possibility of failure, and the odds are greater that the raid will fail before a single drive. Or maybe this is one of those quantam things I slept through in math. 🙂
Ed

[walter biscardi] “Um, you’re talking about a single drive so by default there’s no “protection” for a single drive.

Hence there is no difference between a single drive and the RAID 0 of the G-RAID mini.

There’s nothing wrong with RAID 0 so long as you back up your material, just as if you’re going to get this single drive, you need to back up that material if you want to protect it.”

[Jimmy Brunger]

Yeah, that’s what I meant Ed..but now i’m not sure my maths of probability are right either!?

I am kind of using this drive as my sole storage for the moment, so I guess a RAID-1 might be a good idea. Planning on getting a big CalDigit or similar fairly soon, but I need to do some work off my laptop for now and need a temp solution. I will look at these RAID-1 solutions.

My only big problem now remains that I can’t get any versions of Premiere Pro to work with a Power PC mac running Leopard! And Final Cut don’t do a trial version!! I needed to offline on Premiere ideally, but now I’ll settle for any cheap/free trial NLE I can run that will spit out an EDL!

Any ideas guys?

*Production Studio Premium CS2 / *Combustion 3 / Mocha v1.0.1 / Elastic Reality
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