Matthew Sonnenfeld
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The drive is killing me because it is not running fast enough and gets too hot in the plastic enclosure with no fan. It causes me a lot of difficulty in general. Also, whenever I edit off of it with eSATA, it screws up my computer when I am rendering or exporting to quicktime by freezing the OS and forcing me to restart the computer and whatever else I was doing that made the drive freak out.
In terms of the recommended drives, the CalDigit VR looks fantastic but is certainly more expensive than the G-RAID 3. I wish that I could have flexibility of RAID 0 or RAID 1 or the speed of the HDone in RAID 5, but money is unfortunately the deciding factor between the two drives. I like the ability to swap out drives in VR and the LCD display and the cooling looks great. Basically, my question at the end of the day is, are the advantages in the CalDigit worth the price over the G-RAID 3? I could do the CalDigit but that would mean taking a hit to the quality of a portable drive and/or an expresscard SSD.
What do you think?
And thanks so much for the help!
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Sorry, forgot to say that my Macbook Pro is a unibody 2.8 ghz with 4 gigs or ram… if that makes any difference.