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Best place to install extra FCS3 media
All,
I’ve done some searching and found a few limited answers, some from a few years back. I’m curious as to what you guys do on your systems and if it makes a diff.
I am about to load Snow Leopard and FCS3 onto a new clean internal drive (which I think is 250G). I also have a separate internal drive that holds all my projects. It’s a 1T drive and it has plenty of space on it. The boot drive tends to stay pretty clean as I don’t like to add tons of stuff to it.
I’m wondering if I should put all the extra media like loops, templates, etc onto my boot drive where the apps reside or in a subfolder on the separate media drive.
I’m wondering if there is a general recommendation. By default, I assume it goes onto the same drive as the application. Wondering if others have seen benefits of putting it on a separate internal drive.
I’m on a dual core Mac Pro (bought just about 3 years ago).
Thanks in advance.
Paul
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Hey Paul,
Well I do the same thing. I just picked up my copy of Snow Leopard and ready to wipe and install it on my MBP –
Since I have a MBP I dont get the option of having multiple drives (unless I do that SWEET mod where you take out the DVDRom and put in another internal hdd, but since I need that dvdrom (even though it sucks) I have been using an Dual dock with TEN 1Tb drives for all my storage. I heard it was bad to Edit on the same drive as the OS is located.
No to answer your question (lol) I install stp loops, and dvdsp templates etc. on the internal cause I do a clean install on my MBP internal hdd every quarter or 6 months.
If someone has a better answer I would be interested to know if this is the right way to do it 🙂
PatrickFCS 3 – MBP 2.93ghz 4gb RAM, 300gb 7200 Internal HDD, iStarUSA Dual Dock with (10) 1TB 3.5 Seagate Barracuda drives, and a couple 250’s Maxtors, and Seagates.
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Go spend $100 and get yourself a 1TB HD. Clone your current system drive to your original and you will most likely never have storage issues.
Yes, you should install your new hard drive into your Mac Pro.
For MBP, do the same thing with a 500 GB drive. Installing a HD into the MBP is not that difficult.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Thanks Steve. It’s not so much that I have storage space issues. I’m wondering if there is a benefit of putting the extra media on a diff internal drive instead of the default location of the boot drive.
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There is no benefit. Most people were having storage issues an needed an alternative place to store the media.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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