Best external drive for Macbookpro and FCP

[Shane Ross]

SCSI is pretty much gone. All hard drives are SATA. CalDigit VR is good. MaxxDigital Edit Vault too. G-Drive from G Technology.

Shane

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[Bobby Long]

do not get LaCie… i got a cheap 1tb and it stopped being detected by my computer within a week and no longer works

[John Foley]

I use a 2.5″ SATA drive based enclosure that I put together myself. It can be self powered using a USB-2 port on your MacBook Pro or E-SATA with an Express-34 card adapter. e-SATA is much faster than USB.
There are many solution for this enclosure. I used one from ULTRA products that cost me about $25.00

[Craig Alan]

what format of video will you be editing? does your macbook pro have an Express-34 card slot?

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[Jim Bell]

I will be editing SD video mostly 24fps from dvx 100b’s… My Macbook does have the express card interface.

Thanks to all!

[Matthew Bradshaw]

You can buy 1TB raid drive (with 2 500Gb drives in). If you run it as raid 1 you get speed advantages although not absolute security. I got mine of ebay for less than £200. Very easy to set up. You can daisy chain other Firewire 800 drives through it if you wish.
Matt.

[Ben Holmes]

G-Tech G-Raid (great value at 2Tb) – will also work with eSATA if you get an expresscard interface, but you won’t need it.

Also Caldigital VR are well rated (as well as ones mentioned by Shane).

Don’t buy Lacie or WD – they are not well built enough for laptop mobile use.

Personally – it’s hard to beat the price on G-Raids for pro use. If you’ve got the cash, get the g-raid mini which is bus-powered. With all G-Raids, get the 7200rpm ones. The G-drives are single drive – fine, but not as quick.

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[Patrice Freymond]

After intensive use for a whole 18 months without a glitch I would recommend the Sonnet Fusion F2. I have the 640 Go but there is a 1To version now.

Hope this helps,

Patrice

[Nick Price]

hi there,
i have a Gtech-graid that i bought 6 years ago, use it everyday for online. Still works great. I also have 10 iomega Ultramax drives of various sorts. 2 have died over time, but iomega have replaced them without charge….very good customer service…

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