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Your opinion please
How safe am I using those nice TB Lacie drives for big project in FCP? Or should I be adding Internal drives to my G5 instead?
Thanks for info.
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easy answer….your safe.
But as with EVERY drive (internal or external) it WILL fail eventually. So no one can give you a guarantee that you will be “safe”.
I use a LACIE BIggest 2.5TB drive and it works great. I’ve always used external drives (for media) to a varying degree of speed and success. They all “worked” but some were too slow for my tastes.
As long as you use SATA, you should be good to go for MOST video formats.
I use DVCProHD and Prores, as well as the occasional SD (brother’s got to eat!). -
In my opinion, any investment in premanufactured enclosures containing firewire drives is a waste of your resources, unless you need to transport those drives between facilities.
A single SATA drive is more than twice as fast as a firewire 800 drive, much more robust, and won’t tend to go offline as firewire does. In addition, you can buy a really good buy bare drive with a 5-year warranty for a fraction of the cost of the prefab enclosures, which are usually built around cheap consumer drives with just a 1-year warranty.
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Great!! Thanks for the Info.
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You’re only as safe as your backup. This is true regardless of what type of drive or array you’re using.
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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Two Years ago we had 8 LaCie drives go down and 2 clients list more than 2 drives each
We swore them off completely
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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