hyphygreek
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Just wondering if anyone is editing with USB 3.0 external hard drives? How reliable is it?
Anyone editing with USB 3.0?
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hyphygreek
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Sweet... let me know how that goes when you CC and export... really interested.
Darren Levine
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USB is the most widely used standard, reliability is only an issue in the parts you're using, buy a quality external drive and plug it in to a quality computer, and reliability will be very high. as for speed, it's on par with SATA in terms of overall throughput. there are numerous other considerations for its detailed performance, but suffice it to say you can consider USB 3 a very very good option
hyphygreek
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Ya I heard speeds can get lower, but it is still around Sata speeds. They do have to use eSata raids when using programs like smoke, so I figured a 7200rpm external USB 3.0 on a really good laptop would run no problems.
Postmaster
Dark Side of the Camera
I made a mobile editing suite/DIT station based on USB3 and it works like a charm.
http://frankglencairn.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/my-new-editing-suite-in-a-box-and-dit-station/
The laptop and the RAID drives also have eSata, that should - at least on paper - be faster, but I get more performance out of them, if I plug them in as USB3.
Frank
http://frankglencairn.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/my-new-editing-suite-in-a-box-and-dit-station/
The laptop and the RAID drives also have eSata, that should - at least on paper - be faster, but I get more performance out of them, if I plug them in as USB3.
Frank
Boncrek
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That's a sweet looking rig you got there. How much did all that cost you?
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Dark Side of the Camera
In the neighborhood of 2200 Euros.
Not too shabby, when you think that the cheapest 17" MacBook Pro comes for 2499 Euros.
And that is not even close to the specs of my mobile suite.
Frank
Not too shabby, when you think that the cheapest 17" MacBook Pro comes for 2499 Euros.
And that is not even close to the specs of my mobile suite.
Frank
Hello Frank,
Could you please tell me which i7 and which Nvidia your laptop is using?
Also, what hard disk does it have for system and...are the hard drives on your RAID set up normal sata2 7200rpm... or something better?
Hope Im not asking much:embarasse
Thanks in advance...
Postmaster
Dark Side of the Camera
Quadcore i7-2670QM/ Nvidia 2GB GT 555M
The drives in the RAID boxes are normal 7200rpm (forgot the brand but ether Baracudas or Samsung)
Frank
There are various energy saving settings that you can tweak to make your drives stay spinning.
Also, for the Mac... and I think PC there is a handy little utility called "Disksomnia" that'll - poke - all your connected drives to make sure they are awake.
http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/disksomnia
I dont know if there is a PC version, but im sure there are similar things available.
Thank you...