TB Drives VS. Multiple MB Drives

[PimpDaddyDA]

Hey DVX'ers... any word on hard drives for editing.... Are the large 1.2 TB drives better than stringing a bunch of 350GB drives together?

Faster downloads?

also, do I need a tape deck to download my images to the computer? Or can I use any simple DV camera? Is there any quality loss by using a cheap DV camera? Or is it all the same digi thing?

Thanks,
Darryl

[Barry_Green]

1.2tb would be an astoundingly large drive, capable of holding over 100 hours of footage. Do you need that much space? Even a 350gb drive can handle over 30 *hours* of footage.

I'd vote for a few external drives over one large drive. With multiple external drives it's easier to back up, you can get more performance if you're reading from one and writing to the other, and -- in the horrific case of a hard disk crash, at least you wouldn't lose everything...

[PimpDaddyDA]

Hi... we've got about 65 hours of DV footage... along with 24bit/48K sound. Most of the footage is w/dialogue.

I like what you are saying here about back up and crashing... You think 3 / 350 mb drives would cover the work load?

Also, is external better for heat issues?

Thanks for your help,
Darryl

[Sirius_Doggy]

All those large TB drives are just a bunch of 300Gig drives in a RAID system so there's really no difference.
Actually there is one difference... if that thing crashes you loose everything.
I've got a terabyte of storage over 4 seperate 250GB drives. I just spread out my projects to different drives. That way if I loose one drive, all is not lost....