Matt Clifton
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I think you’re going to have to jump into the Thunderbolt world at this point. If you’ve got that port, it’s really the best option for external fast storage at this point.
Ideally you’d get an enclosure with at least two drives – a single rotating drive will not be fast enough to do what you want to do, no matter how it’s connected (USB/FW/TB).
OWC in the US has a 2TB dual-drive Thunderbolt unit for $400 (about £250). I’d look for something similar in the UK (or even pay for international shipping if you can’t find anything cheaper).
You might find ideas at this Tom’s Hardware article (from the UK): https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/my-book-thunderbolt-duo-pegasus-r4-2big,review-32484.html
Matt
Matt Clifton
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Hi Chris
Most people will tell you that there’s no such thing as a “best drive” – there’s only the drive/storage which works the best for what YOU are doing. You haven’t really supplied a lot of detail, so let me ask you a few questions.
– What sort of editing are you doing (what software, what codec and resolution/bandwidth? (e.g., Avid/Premiere/FCPX, ProRes 422/DNxHD 175, 1080p/2K, etc)
– How many layers of video do you expect to work with at any one time?
– What kind of drive do you have now, how is it connected, and in what way isn’t it good enough? (e.g., not fast enough/get video stutters, etc)
– How much storage do you need at any one time (e.g., 4TB)?
– Does that budget include a backup drive?Matt
Matt Clifton
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Very curious about people’s experiences with the Intensity Pro. Heard one report on the Avid forums that issues were fixed with the latest drivers. Certainly the MXO2 Mini is problematic with MC6, and looking for a better HDMI monitoring solution.
Matt
Matt Clifton
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Roughly how much footage do you have? If you have drive bays free internally, the cheapest solution may well be to get some new, large, internal drives for each MP (and RAID-0 them, PROVIDED THAT you have a backup copy), clone the media to both sets, and run that way. If you’re wanting ultimately to exchange sequences, I’d name the RAID sets identically.
If not, two cloned sets of external drives, again named identically.
The only shared storage for FCP I know of involves Fibre Channel or a server with bonded ethernet (Small Tree’s GraniteStor). Maybe worth calling Small Tree for a quote: 866 782 4622
Matt
Matt Clifton
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