Frank Giardina
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Here’s an update… I used the Seagate drive for all of two weeks and it’s not POWERING UP. I hear they acquired or are in the process of acquiring LaCie. That doesn’t sound good to me at all. With that being said, any external drive recommendations.
Frank Giardina
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I hear that… when I used tape it was easy just to save the tape as the backup. Shooting with DSLR means huge project files to backup. When I was using FCP I kept RAW on one drive and the project transcoded on another. Now, I’ll have to just backup on another drive. Thanks for reminding me Walter!
Frank Giardina
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Crazy!!! LaCie drives are solid. Should be interesting to see what Seagate comes up with.
Frank Giardina
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Thanks Walter… sounds good to me. I’m having pretty good luck with the Seagate drive so far, but it doesn’t seem as good an external drive thank what I typically use, which is LaCie
Frank Giardina
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7) Launched Premiere, opened the project and all is well! I’m a happy camper!!
8) The only glitch was it has to re-render.
9) Next will be doing some editing, save and open on my MAC and see where I stand.Stay Tuned 🙂
Frank Giardina
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5) When the project was done copying over I opened it on the Seagate drive with no issues.
6) Downloading the Cloud to my laptop now.Stay Tuned 🙂
Frank Giardina
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Seagate GoFlex 2TB External Drive “MAC and Windows PC” Shared Drive Premier CS6 Test
1)The drive came in preformatted with an NTFS for a Windows PC
2)I mounted the drive on my Windows PC and went through the registration process, then ejected the drive.
3)I then mounted the same drive on a MAC, registered it on the MAC, and went through the MacInstall steps. Note: the install on the MAC includes a Paragon Driver, but it is only functional with the Seagate Drive.
4)I’m copying a 124GB project I started on my MAC to the Seagate Drive. It will take a couple hours for that to happen.Stay Tuned 🙂
Frank Giardina
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I’m going to do some tests and I’ll post the results 🙂
Fingers, eyes, arms, and legs all crossed!
Frank Giardina
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I figured I’d give this a try? If it doesn’t work, the drive will still be useful. I ordered a Seagate 2 TB USB 3.0 FreeAgent GoFlex Desk External Drive. The Paragon driver is a utility that is offered with the GoFlex family of external drives and enables MacOS to mount NTFS volumes (partitions), read from them, and write to them. In short, it makes the GoFlex drive usable on a Windows PC and on a Mac without any reformatting or data erasure or instability.
Frank Giardina
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Chris… would that be individual files of 4gb? My projects contain clips totaling over 100gb, with some individual clips as large as 1.4gb.
YIKES! Maybe I should just get a MAC Laptop and eat MAC and Cheese for a while.
Frank Giardina
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