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external hard drive selection
Hi all,
I wanted to know which external hard drive would be sufficient to hookup to my fcp?
I have 4 new fcp studios – one is connected to an apple raid, one has a 1tb external that i got from staples (maxtor) that i download p2 stuff from and the other 2 are just working on their own guts.
So i gues my real question(s) is;
1. Do these other 2 fcp, working with their own guts, need some kind of external drive to do the physical editing from or are there guts just fine? I wonder this because our Apple rep. said we should use some kind of external drive when doing the actual editing because we’ll “rip the drives to shreds” if we do not. I thought i was buying the fcp assuming they could handle everything.
Anyway, here’s what the “guts” consist of;
taken right from the harware overview
(2) 2.66ghz dual cores – 3 gb memory 1.33ghz bus speed – L2 cache per processor is 4mb – nvidia geforce 7300 gt graphics card w/ 256 mb vram – 232gb hard drive with 169 gb available
Hope this info helps
TIA
Sam
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7 Replies
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What format(s) are you editing?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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hdv, dvcpro25, dvcpro50 and in the near future hd1080i and maybe 720p
Sam
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and I forgot DVCPROHD100
TIA
Sam
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Sam:
Keep your media on a drive other than the boot drive. Your boot drive will run the applications and the OS. The other drive will push the media.
If your media resides on the boot drive it will work
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Thanks for the advice – great help
Can you suggest a specific or favorite type of media drive to use?
Is a maxtor JBOD 1tb from staples good or do I need something like a g-speed as advertised on this screen? 🙂
TIA
Sam
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[Sam Lesante Jr.] “hdv, dvcpro25, dvcpro50 and in the near future hd1080i and maybe 720p”
As in uncompressed 4:2:2 10 bit HD or just compressed HD like HDV and DVCPro HD?
I run two 8TB SAS/SATA arrays from MaxxDigital after testing CalDigit, Dulce, and Sonnet. We get upwards of 500MB/s drive speeds with these things so they are ready for absolutely anything we throw at them from DV to 2K.
At the very least, I would suggest a 5 drive SATA array minimum, though it will be tough to do any long Uncompressed HD with that. I’ve never tried the GSpeed and Gary Adcock is the only person I know that’s running them, and he likes them.
We have a pair of LaCie S2S units that cut DVCPro HD all day long on our third system with no issues whatsoever. I like those units as they have been workhorses for two years now.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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Here is the conservative advice for DV, HDV:
1. Buy an PCIe expansion card to add FW ports. Or even better eSATA ports.
2. Buy a drive with RAID 3 or 5 data protection, like the LaCie Quadra or G-Speed.
3. Plug this drive into your PCIe expansion card.
This set up will take you up to DVCPro HD and if you go with eSATA and buy a serious drive you will be prepared to dabble with higher end formats
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