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The many choices of External Harddrives
I’m working with FCP 6.01 on a Mac Book Pro.
Most of the time I edit in DV25, but once in a while DVCPRO50, Uncompressed, and maybe HD later on (In Apple ProRes 422 then I guess).Which harddrive should I choose? Would I need FW800, or is FW400 okay? Will USB2.0 do the magic the same way as FW, or is it no option?
I’m now considering the following harddrives:
LaCie d2 500 GB (FW800/USB/eSATA II)or (the cheaper one)
LaCie P3 500GB USB 2.0 -
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[austin] “Will USB2.0 do the magic the same way as FW, or is it no option?”
No USB only works in burst of data, for video you NEED constant data transfer.
You could use FW, but I would suggest using eSATA, get a eSATA card for your MBP.
eSATA is 2x as fast as FW800. And it will be even faster if you raid 2 or more drives together.I have one of these that I like
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MESR7M10TB32/ -
BUT, if you must use firewire, go with F/W 800. And Western Digital makes a good drive. We’ve had quite a few problems with the Lacie big disks. The 1TB of the western digital can get a bit noisy with the fans, but the 500gb have been perfect for us.
Tim
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I have a D2 250 on my MBP via FW 800 and it will work with a stream or two of 8bit uncompressed, but I mostly use this drive to take with when I go to clients. For real work I have a Firmtek two-drawer eSATA RAID that’s fast as hell and cost less than 500 buck for the enclosure, cables, card for the MBP and two 500 gig drives. Fantastic little unit.
Have a wonderful day.
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