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Hard drive recommendations for P2 files?
We’re looking at another round of updating. What is the latest scoop on hard drives for storage of P2 files? Looking for the best cost to performance/reliability ratios… Mac-FCP system. Thanks for your help & insight-
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Archiving. (I usually work off of the internal Mac SATA drive for media)
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I use bare SATA drives….hitachis or Western Digital. Seagates seem overkill for archiving.
Shane
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Hmm. Thanks Shane. One more ?: recommendation for enclosure kit (what HD plugs into)?
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Adapter cable…no enclosure:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NVSPATA/
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Or, we just ordered one of these. No trays, but is nicer than a bare drive sitting on your desktop.
https://www.wiebetech.com/products/rtx.php
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I’m working on a workflow for my company’s new tape-free production environment. I’m looking at a similar 4-drive enclosure from startech. They’re cheap enough that I can buy one for both edit suites and our animator and just hot-swap when we want to load footage.
For raw footage, the plan is to buy enough P2 cards to be able to bring them back to the office & offload them onto the current “camera original” SATA drive (swapping it out & popping it in the library once it reaches capacity).
Since p2 cards are expensive and transfer times might make using a p2store in the field impractical, I’m looking at a desktop PCMCIA/P2 reader for desktop Macs:
https://www.amtron.com/reader/p2card_reader.htm
Then again, if p2 cards ever got super-cheap this process would be sooo much simpler.
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