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How Can I Online If I Can’t Mount All My Media?
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[David Roth Weiss] “Speed (better discussed as throughput) is always an issue for every editor using FCP or any NLE”
iMovie is an NLE right? How many iMovie “editors” do you know that use a RAID?
I have no render time. Simple edits. No multicam. No processor intensive codec. I don’t need a RAID. I simply don’t need fast “throughput” sir.
Not putting you down.
I know what a RAID is and I don’t need one.
Thanks.
Justin Ford
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[Justin Ford] “I have no render time. Simple edits. No multicam. No processor intensive codec. I don’t need a RAID. I simply don’t need fast “throughput” sir.”
Okay! You passed the test. I’ll give you an A for that answer. 🙂
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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Id stay away from usb3. Stick with sata. Thunderbolt sure, but your mac doesn’t have it.
If you want to keep oing it the way you’re doing, I don’t see why you don’t get two 3TB drives, shove those in your Mac.
Get a cheap bare hard drive enclosure and transfer your media from each drive to the new 6TB you have.
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Jeremy:
Not sure why, but I trust your advice on sticking with SATA. Probably won’t see a thunderbolt card for quite a while. Caldigit (my fav) has a SATA III card out with USB 3.0 as well.
But why not just use the enclosure along internal drives? It’s SATA II, which Apple is still currently using, and that would solve the everything online problem. What’s the benefit of getting the 3TB drives?
Sorry if long threads annoy people 🙂
Justin Ford
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[Justin Ford] “iMovie is an NLE right? How many iMovie “editors” do you know that use a RAID?”
iMovie is basic editing tool, not a pro NLE:
No TC control, no media managing, no RT options, always rendering, fix codecs,..
Overkilling a RAID for iMovie, I think.[Justin Ford] “I have no render time. Simple edits. No multicam. No processor intensive codec. I don’t need a RAID. I simply don’t need fast “throughput” sir.”
Then, unless you are working with 10b Uncompressed or heavier stuff, FW-800 should be OK.
Just don’t export or set the Render Folder in the media HDs and don’t use more than a HD per FW Bus.As soon as you need a bit more of speed, the next option would be a FW-800 RAID; then eSATA.
I love eSATA.
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[Justin Ford] “But why not just use the enclosure along internal drives? It’s SATA II, which Apple is still currently using, and that would solve the everything online problem. What’s the benefit of getting the 3TB drives?”
You could. Just trying to save you some money. A single enclosure is super cheap. The benefit of 3TB is more space, which you seem to be out of.
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Thanks, Rafael. That’s informative about the 10-bit uncompressed. Nowhere near that. Would shoot for a SATA III if I could via PCIe for the Mac.
Trying to make a point with iMovie. Things are changing quick.
Very interested in why not to export or render to media drives though. I haven’t heard that before.
Thanks!
Justin Ford
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