Ed Dooley
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I do too. I’m willing to lug an external drive around too (I hope they sort that all out soon), because I don’t think that P2 is going to be cheap enough, or storage enough for my long-form shoots (90% of my shooting). If the quality is good enough, the weight difference from my big rigs will make the HVX feel like a toy.
Ed[Michael Totten] “I have high hopes for the HVX… “
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A few years back when Beta ruled, if you took a $14,000 (list) UVW-100 with it’s 1/2″ chips cheap glass and compared it to a $60,000 (list) BVW-600 with 2/3″ chips and great glass, you’d see an enormous difference. Now take a $6,000 HVX-200 with 1/3″ chips and inexpensive lens and, well… you see where I’m going with this.
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Do a search in the FCP forum (and others). You’ll find a ton of past posts, really, a ton. Just type 8bit vs 10bit, really.
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SATA II is here, they’re all making them. As for Maxtor drives, I never owned one, until last week. They’ve had a bad (and I think deserved) reputation, but from what I’ve been reading, they’re good drives these days. The Diamond Max is their consumer line, but has a 3 year warranty. The MaxLineIII is their Pro line, and comes with a 5 year warranty. Most of their highest performing drives come in both their lines (and they have 16MB caches), so the extra warranty/quality/cost might be worth it. In my case, I bought a Diamond MaxIII 300G for a FW drive to store miscellaneous stuff. It won’t be used for anything but non-critical files. But I think I *would* buy Maxtors now even for media drives.
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How was your drive formatted? It should be HFS+ Extended *without* Journaling enabled. Journaling slows down drive performance and shouldn’t be used for media drives.
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Go to barefeats.com or another of the sites I list below and do a SATA search. Some test them all, singly and/or as RAIDS. It at least points you in the right direction.
https://www.storagereview.com/
https://www.hothardware.com/
https://techreport.com/
https://www.tomshardware.com/index.htmlHTH,
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It should be fast enough. Barefeats.com tested its sustained read and write at 65MB/s.
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16:9 footage is still 720×480. You should be choosing Anamorphic for both Capture and Sequence settings. I’m not sure what you mean by “it’s not filling the frame”. What does that mean?
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Hmmm, at the “1 in a million” rate, there should have been a total of, let’s see………2 failed drives in the past year. Just from this forum alone, I’d say the odds are closer to “getting a cold” rates than “getting struck by lightning” rates. 🙂
Ed[Amy Geller] “After speaking extensively with LaCie, the chances of the hardware failing is one in a million. And yet, it appears to be what has happened. “
[Mat @ LaCie] “With about 2 millions drives shipped this year, you will hear more often about LaCie on the Cow and other forums where people post when they have a problem. That’s expected.”
[Stuart Ferreyra] “Well, for the last two years we have had 4 Lacie 500GB.
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I can’t help much, but I know from other postings here on the COW that the odds of a hardware failure with LaCie drives seem to be much, much higher than 1 in a million. I seem to recall that some folks with BDXs that couldn’t be recognized in OSX, went into OS9 and were able to see them. The burning smell and the Apple Disk Utility report seem to point to a total loss, but you might give it a try. Also do an archive search in this and other COW forums, because the “very reliable” LaCie drives come up a lot (for their “unreliability”).
Ed[Amy Geller] ” After speaking extensively with LaCie, the chances of the hardware failing is one in a million. And yet, it appears to be what has happened.”