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Internal vs External ? Which brand and model ?
I just spent 2 hours reading about internal vs. external drives (and what is the best brand and model). I’m more confused now than before. Can anyone cut though to the meat of it for me? I’m purchasing today if possible.
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What kind of format? How much media would you capture at once? And what kind of computer, exactly?
That could make a difference, but my I’m-making-some-assumptions answer is this:
Get the Powermac with the 250 GB hard drive in it. Then, buy a 500 GB SATA drive from someplace else and put it in yourself. Use that as a media drive.
Now, if you’re getting some other kind of computer…editing somekind of high-end HD or uncompressed format…or think you’ll need more than 500 GB of media space, let us know and we can ammend this answer to suit you better.
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Thanks for the quick response. Sorry for making you guess on specifics.
I have Final Cut Studio loaded into a Power Mac G5 tower with: One 1.8GHZ CPU, 1.5 GB Memory, One 150 GB internal Mac HD.
Currently will be loading approx 8hrs of Media for a fairly simple straight forward project. Unfortunately shot on Sony DVD405=MPEG2 files (meaning I almost lost my mind trying to solve that nightmare which is another story altogether). Anyway if possible I’m hoping $200-$400 will get me what I need for now. I prefer quality, speed and reliability over space. I can always add more lately. Have I covered everything? Please advise. -
If you’ll be editing DV25, then an internal 500 gig drive should be fine. There are also kits available from ProMax, Wiebetech, and others to install more drives internally. You can also use a FW800 external drive like the GTech or Lacie. If you’ll be editing anything needing more bandwidth than DV25, I would go with an external SATA RAID (the Burly box, Wiebetech, and others make them) with an eSATA card. Check out barefeats.com or storagereview.com for hard drive reviews and newegg.com for hard drive deals.
HTH,
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Thanks!
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Arnie
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>>> Unfortunately shot on Sony DVD405=MPEG2 files (meaning I almost lost my mind trying to solve that nightmare which is another story altogether).
You know about MPEG Streamclip?
https://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html
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