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Best performance and cost effective hard drives for lossless on G4
Need to upgrade my hard drives to use the lossless option on my dual processor (1.4 GHz) G4. Any suggestions for SCSI or Firewire 800 would be appreciated. Tech says I need 75 mbs sustained for lossless.
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Fireware 800 is TERRIBLE, the connections get loose and you have digitizing problems.
I have Media 100i xr boards with the latest software, in an G4 at 1.42Ghz.
I bought from FirmTek the “Big Boy Bundle”: One External 4-Bay eSATA Enclosue with Card
see: https://store.yahoo.com/firmtek/sata2even4.htmlThat provides over 300 MB/sec transfer rate to the drives and MORE than enough for uncompressed video with the xr option. And the drives are removable!
The engineers I spoke said to only buy thye Hitachi SATA-II dives, either the 250Gb drive or the 500Gb drive. The Hitachi SATA-II 250Gb drive costs only $109.
This is very inexpensive and BLOWS away Firewire 800 which is worthless!
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