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External Hard Drive suggestions
Hey all! I’m Ben from Indiana. I’m a senior Telecommunications student at Ball State University eager to break into the editing business. Starting by getting FCP certified through a grant : )
Anywho, I just had my first un-godly hard drive failure. It’s a LaCie 200gb. I’m reading the Apple store reviews, and I’m seeing very scary things said about LaCie. The thing is, LaCie is pretty much the only trusted hard drive round my neck of the woods at the college.
I’ve read up a little on Maxtor and All4DVD drives, and I’ve heard some decent things. I was wondering what you experts thought. I’m noooooot happy with LaCie right now (thank god im not working yet, this only means I have to do my editing again for my credits <: ) ). (oh and uh... hey, check out my show 😀 https://www.somethingelsetv.com .)
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Benjamin- A real reliable (at least for us) and relatively cost effective external hard drive set-up is a SATA raid. You’ll need a PCI SATA card with external connections, an external drive bay and a pair of matching external SATA drives. You stripe the drives raid 0 with the MAC drive utility and you are on your way. In our case we shoot for $.50 a Gig or less for the drives.
The PCI-X card for our G-5 2.0 is a Seri-Tek (link is https://www.firmtek.com/seritek/ with 4 external connections. We are also using the Seritek 2-bay external enclosure.
When I purchased the drives (6 months ago) I went for two 250’s and they were $129 ea. They handle our 8-bit uncompressed without breaking a sweat and I’ve heard they handle 10 bit also. HD uncompressed requires a whole different level.
Buying the pieces and putting them together is not really that tough… expecially for a college guy. Do a search on the the COW for SATA and I’m sure you’ll find a lot more info if its something you want to persue.
Jerry -
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