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capturing with firewire 800
I’m looking to get a external hard drive. I know that firewire 800 is much faster for reading off of the hard drive. Do I need a hard drive that accepts FW 800 or is running a FW 800 cable from my g5 to a regular FW 400 hard drive the same thing? does this make sense?
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You are defeating the purpose of FW 800 if you use a FW 800 connection to a FW 400 drive. For maximum throughput both the ports and cable must be FW 800. If one end is FW 400 your FW800 port slows down.
Please do not buy a cheap FW 800 drive. They become costly over time. My favorite brand is G-Raid. They are a bit more expensice but very worth it – a true workhorse!
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How large of a HD should I get if i’m looking to get into High Def. in the future?
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[lukewarm13] “How large of a HD should I get if i’m looking to get into High Def. in the future?”
Stay away from FW800 and invest in a SATA array for all your future HD needs.
Jeremy
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you dont have to go into a lot of detail but what is the reason for this?
any particular name brands you would recommend?
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[lukewarm13] “you dont have to go into a lot of detail but what is the reason for this?”
eSATA is faster…capable of handling more streams of compressed HD and prores, and given enough drives, five or more, it is capable of uncompressed HD. FW800…between 50 and 70MB/s. eSATA, Between 90 and 140MB/s.
All macs come with ONE firewire bus…going eSATA leaves that bus open for capturing footage via firewire, like HDV, DVCPRO HD, XDCAM…
Daisy chaining FW800 raided drives (what you need for editing compressed HD…except for HDV) is a BIG issue. They all lose performance drastically once daisy chained…from 65MB/s to 16MB/s. The only one that doesn’t do this is the Firewire VR from CalDigit.
[lukewarm13] “any particular name brands you would recommend?”
Caldigit S2VR series, or even HD Pro if you have the dough. MacGurus Burly Box, Dulce Systems, Sonnet 500P…
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Your answer is located on the sides in this browser. CalDigit is just one of them.
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how can i connect an external sata to my g5?
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Why not LOOK at the drive solutions offered to you? They will show you what you need to know.
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i SEE that i have firewire 800 and 400 ports on my g5 and i dont SEE any sata port. THAT is my question.
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What you need to DO is look at all the eSATA options we gave you. Note that each one offers an ESATA CARD that you install in the computer.
If you looked at the options provided, you’d have seen that.
Shane
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