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What external Hard Drive should I use with HDV?
I’m looking at the Maxtor one touch III 500GB hard drive but I’m not sure if I need firewire 800 or if 400 is adequite. I’m working on a powerbook G4 with 2GB of ram and can accomodate firewire 800. Anyone know of problems with Maxtor or have another suggestion.
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I’d go with either a Weibetech, Granite digital, or G-technology setup.. FW 800 or 400 will work… The fastest setup would be an eSATA external with a PC card (adds the necessary connection) to accomodate it. That way, your FW bus on the laptop isn’t being used by the drive and the drive will be faster than either an 800 or 400 setup… only the deck/camera would tie up the FW bus… that would be my first choice.
Jerry
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Think ahead. Go faster than Firewire 800. It’ll be well worth doing. You may not want or need to do other formats right now, but you may get a request to do Uncompressed SD or even some basic uncompressed HD. (Full-blown layered Uncompressed HD is really another league and you will have to spend big bucks for a full fiber raid to do it right. I know from personal experience, I’ve wasted money, spend a few extra dollars now.
Look into a 3GB x-fer speed, expandable SATA Raid system. It’s not too expensive. You can get a PCI card (approx $300), A drive enclosure with a couple of removable drives. ($200) And then a pair of drives are about $200 each. This way you can have seperate sets of drives for different projects clients. Total is under $1K and you can then handle DV, HDV, SD all they way to a single stream of Uncompressed HD.
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com
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