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Using non – AVID drives with MC9000XL
Hi everyone.
Anyone using drives other than avid LVD drives with their online avid at 1:1?
I’m wondering if I can swap out the 36GB seeagate in my rs36/160 LVD enclosure for a larger Seagate ( replacing in the same enclosure) OR buy a whole new drive/enclosure (which one) and keep the 36GB too?
Any links would be great.
Thanks very much for your help.
Cheers.
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You should able to connect just about every recent SCSI-drive to your Avid-System.
There is only little to observe: use LVD SCSI, watch your SCSI-IDs, don’t connect more than 7-8 drives to one SCSI-chain and don’t stripe different drives… -
I’m using Medea RAIDs. Any drive system that pushes the data through the pipes fast enough will work. There are lots of reliable choices on the market.
Remember to turn off “Drive Filtering” if you use 3rd party drives. Avid drives come with data in an inaccessible part of the drive that tells the Avid software which compressions it is fast enough to handle.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City
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