downloading p2 cards

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jimellis

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Just purchased p2 cards for my hvx200. Next step is purchasing an external drive that I can download the p2 cards to while in the field. Looking around on line there seems to be many to choose from. Western Digital mybook premium 500gb drive looked good, or is it better to buy an internal drive and a case and build my own? Which internal drive performs the best in this workflow?
Thanks for your input.
Jim
 
The RPM and the aerial density are the primary factors when considering speed. So in theory your laptop drive would be faster all other things being equal. Most of the power management stuff happens on the laptop, not the drive.
I assume you're never going to be more than 100ft from an AC outlet?
 
It would take about fifteen minutes to transfer all the files from a 16GB P2 card within the camera onto the hard drive with my suggested solution.
And you wouldn't need a laptop on location.
And also no outlet.
 
well sounds like your getting a great transfer rate with that ata drive. Why did you choose ata over sata?
 
Good question - I do not know much about computers - somebody recomended this setup for me and I'm very happy with it.
I don't like to carry my latop arround with me because my whole life is on it...
 
Thanks for your input. I found out this weekend that they don't make a sata drive enclosure with a firewire output. So you may have the best there is. Thanks again.
 
Not certain what you are saying, but I've seen enclosures with triple interfaces, USB, FW and SATA.

What are you looking for?
 
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