LaCie 80GB Rugged Drives as Media Drives?

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LaCie 80GB Rugged Drives as Media Drives?

Posted by Pat Defilippo on May 1, 2007 at 1:14 pm

Hi All!

I just had a quick question about the LaCie “Rugged” external hard drive. The one I have is 80GBs and has Firewire 800, 400 and USB 2 for IO. Pretty nice because it powers itself from the computer via the connection.

Here’s the main question, though. It’s a 5400 RPM drive. I have 7200 RPM stuck in my head as what is needed to use external drives as Final Cut Pro media drives in order to ensure fewer (if any) dropped frames, etc.

Is that still the case with something like the LaCie Rugged external hard drive or perhaps, since it has a FW800 connection, should it work well as a FCP media drive anyway? If it works well, I’d probably use it with my G5 Quad and my MacBook Pro.

In this upcoming on-site scenario, I have an Express 34 card and would use it with my MacBook Pro via FW800, while a DSR-40 would be hooked up simultaneously in the built-in FW400 port.

Also, has anyone had any good and/or bad experiences with this LaCie Rugged 5400 RPM external hard drive as a FCP media drive?

Thanks in advance!
-Pat

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Walter Biscardi
May 1, 2007 at 1:15 pm

For DV it will work ok for a while, but as it starts to fill up, you’ll get dropped frames in a hurry. Good drive for backup, not a good drive for primary media capture / playback.

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Pat Defilippo
May 1, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Hi Walter!

Luckily, I’ve got a 500GB Lacie FW800 drive that is definitely 7200 RPM and works well. So, I’ll go with that. I was going to pre-edit a few things on the plane, but I’d rather watch the movie or get some pre-sleep anyway!

Thanks very much yet again for your help, and so quickly, too! You’ve helped me out quite a bit in the last 16 months or so, when I switched over to FCS from the Accom StrataSphere.

It was nice to meet you at the Creative Cow booth a few weeks ago at NAB and your new “All Things Apple” Podcasts are great and informative, too.

Thanks again,
-Pat

G5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
30″ Cinema Display & 17″ Sony SVGA ~
Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~~~

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TV~DVD~VHS~CD~WEB
for Corporate Communications, Commercials, Infomercials, Television Programs, Family Occasions since 1983 ~
E-mail PD@PDPost.com ~
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