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There are two flavors or of hi-8, digital and analog.

[David Roth weiss]

Peter,

If I hadn’t read numerous comparisons by experts who put Maxline SATAs way out in front of of both Seagate and Hitachi, and if weren’t running my entire business on twelve of them myself, I might also think carefully about them after reading that guy’s review.

DRW

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Mike,

A very honest and forthright apparaisal. I think these issues are often misunderstood and not discussed nearly enough, and so the tools that many buy for the job often do not meet their expectations. I can see this as a problem for both consumers and manufacturers alike.

All the best,
DRW

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Mike,

I appreciate your measured response. These discussions needn’t become the major confligrations that often erupt over these emotional hardware issues.

I roll my own, with “enterprise-level” hard drives throughout, which are now available quite inexpensively, and often for either a small premium over consumer-level drives or in some cases even at lower cost. At the volumes at which your company purchases its hard drives, surely LaCie could afford to populate every one of its hard drive enclosures with enterprise-level drives with a five year warranties, yet LaCie chooses to use consumer drives with a one year warranty. Could you address that issue?

DRW

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Mike,

I sincerely feel that your continued arguments here in support of LaCie are actually perpetuating a problem. Its a bit like sending many thousands of unarmoured Humvees into a war zone and arguing that they are inherently safe simply because a large percentage of them are not blown up.

While I will acknowledge that there are users on the Cow at all skill levels from amatuer to professional, that doesn’t change the fact the demands of intensive video editing on hard drive subsystems are very high at all levels. I think its fair to say that LaCie’s products are mass produced and mass marketed for the general consumer/pro-sumor market, and I also think its fair to say that in many cases they are simply not up to the day to day rigors of intensive video editing. Nonetheless, they continue to be pushed to the often naive and unsuspecting users at all levels who comprise a large percentage of the population in the world of “democratized” video.

DRW

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Well, I hope the program works better than the link to the program.

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iMan,

Learn to deal with hard drives and other technical cuomputer related issues and you’ll become more confident and self-sufficient. Its like the difference in having someone give you a fish vs. giving you a fishing net. The fish will feed you for a day, a net feeds you for a lifetime.

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Bogie,

I simply asked if you had FCp 5. Don’t know why you’re sddressing all that other stuff toward me. Its just that your machines seem to be a bit dated, and typically I see many responses here based on residual mistrust of previous versions of the software.

BTW, I its faily obvious that Apple must be releasing special versions of FCP to their Los Angeles based users. To everyone else, especially those in Idaho, its caveat emptor…

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Eric,

The people at Firmtek are former Apple folks. They are very Mac centric and will answer any questions you have. I’m certain you’d be doing fine with any of their products, but write them and ask, they are very nice.

DRW

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[JeremyG] “if you have a keyframe at the beginning and end) by hitting ‘apple-c’.”

Jeremy,

Please ellaborate on this one. It doesn’t seem to work on my machine. If you can clarify this one I’ll hold you in high regard through the next millineum.

DRW