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Hard Drive Storage Suggestion for FCP 4.5?
Hey guys, I’m making a doc over the course of this year. Expect to have about 150 hrs of footage when fully digitized.
Looking for a portable, inexpensive (relatively) storage solution to keep all the DV25 and possibly HDV footage on.
If anyone is using these large capacity externals drives, which models would you recommend and why?
The doc is being cut on a powerbook, and then back and forth from a G5.
Thanks.
Franco
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A FW800 tower with removable SATA drives would serve you well. They can come in 500gig to 2TB configurations. I just hapeen to be a reseller of such a beast, email me and I can give you further details. john@pixeladdicts.com
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You’re lookinng at a little over 2Tb just to dig 150 hours of DV footage alone. This doesnt count renders, graphics, music, etc. I would get at least 3Tb. If you are allright with not having redundancy; then I would go with external SATA drives. Take a look at Sonnet’s offerings. Best situation would be a FibreChannel RAID of SCSI RAID; but you’re looking at a sizeable jump in cost from the SATA solution.
Scott Davis
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