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solid state hard drives
Aloha,
Getting ready to dump my old MacBook Pro G4 and planning to pick up a new one — came across the question of solid state hard drives for the first time. Any layman advice on these? I produce television — not a computer whiz and I don’t want to get caught (again) spending too much on stuff I don’t need. I do use FCP Studio, Adobe CS4, and other pro apps with HD footage and high res stills so I’m looking for the most storage, fastest processing, most reliable, etc.
I have had a number of external drives fail on me losing years of work that I thought was “backed up” on the drives — then the drives take a crap. I have a 2.5TB raid connected to my desktop that held all my archived video data for a time — then when I wanted to use the material — the raid crapped out on me too and I had to re-digitize hundreds of tapes.
I’m really tired of having to back up stuff to dvds — getting the material back in order to use it is tedious and I have questions about quality after all the compression which takes place getting to the disk. Any advice/recommendations would be greatly appreciated. -
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Best value for money and reliability would be an esata RAID 5 external. RAID 5 gives you drive redundancy so if you have a drive fail, you can swap it out and rebuild without losing any data. Use good quality drives in these enclosures.
SSDs are horribly expensive by comparison. Most people find that an esata drive with a multi drive RAID 5 setup is fast enough for uncompressed HD so unless you are dealing with bigger bandwidth than that, it’s all you need.
Have a quick search of this forum as advice on good external esata RAID drives was asked just recently and has been asked many times in the recent past.
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Using SSD’s for startup disks really speeds up things like booting up, launching apps, saving files et all… that’s a place that might make sense, but Michael is right about external storage…
I wonder since they are so much faster if you couldn’t keep media on the startup disk… mmmm… if you’re working short form and only install FCP on a 512 SSD… might by quite yummy albiet expensive.
Jerry
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