[Carlos Castro]

Thank you Walter, I will move it over their if your suggestion doesn’t solve my problem. Thanks for taking the time to post.

[Carlos Castro]

I’ll try that Kent. I have a 2nd drive already in the system that I was using to store small projects {media} until I purchased a Raid drive, Do I need to strip it down { reformat] or just load the OS on to it. I fortunately have a 2nd copy of Leopard since I purchased a Mac Box set recently.

Also in the future will I need to select a drive or program when I power up the system?

thanks again for your help.

[Carlos Castro]

OK Kent,

I’m open to that suggestion. How is that done? Do you happen to have a link I can follow?

How do you get the OS on the new drive?

Thanks

[Carlos Castro]

Thanks John,

I ordered the 2 card readers and I also picked up shotput since most of you all use it, and are seemingly happy with.

Thanks again all for the great info.

[Carlos Castro]

Thank you John,

I’m looking into shotput now acutally, I’ve heard of it but I’ve never used it. Quite frankly, I’m not sure how it works, I took Shane’s advice about dual ext drives to off load to just to be safe, so I’ll look into a 2nd adapter and shotput as well.

Thank you.

[Carlos Castro]

Thanks Steve,

I appreciate your input. I had someone mention it to me in passing and I wasn’t sure whether or not it was reliable, I’ll look into shotput as well.

Thanks again.

[Carlos Castro]

WOW! That’s great news for me.
Thanks John you made my day.

[Carlos Castro]

Thanks Jeremy, lots of useful info their for me. I guess that’s a nice problem to have, 2oTB not enough space, you must be cranking out the work.

Thanks

[Carlos Castro]

Hey Shane one last thing, in your post it says you travel with G minis, to off load P2’s, how many and what size?

Do you have a preference as to the connection type{fire wire, usb, sata etc..} for raids, desktop or portables?

Thanks for your input.

[Carlos Castro]

Great Point!

“It is very careless/dangerous to have only one copy of your media on drive, more so when you are traveling anywhere. I have experienced around 5 separate drive failures over the years, the 1st was fatal for all the data, the others thankfully were in Raid 1 (mirror) and raid 5 (self re build, Raid 5 can’t be used on a two disk array), so I have not suffered data loss in those instances. Never trust one drive 100%. ”

I have had a P2 camera for about 2 years at work, to date I’ve been lucky, no issues. Drives on the other hand a different story. It makes perfect sense then when a client pays the rates they tend to pay production houses, to not have the material at the end of the day, that could get ugly.