EX1 Storage Solution?

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BradCube

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Hi There all,

I'm looking at purchasing an Ex1 in the next couple of months. Unfortunately my budget is extremely tight and it's a jump to even get to the ex1 (although one I think that will be worth it). With this in mind, I was planning on getting a 32gb SxS card to go with the 8gb card included.

Now what I am wondering is what the best method to quickly dump these cards onto a hard drive between recording is? Is the best option for me to purchase a cheap dell laptop to dump the files on, or is there are more elegant straight to HDD solution that I am not currently aware of?

For those interested, I'm planning on using this camera for a variety of things including weddings, live shows and interviews.

Cheers,
Brad
 
I do not know of a straight to HD solution, but I am sure one will be created by Sony one the market gets bigger. The solution that I have found best for me is to dump in the field or at the studio using my MacBook Pro. I have two Maxtor 320gb USB drives that I have gaff-taped together with rubber spacers in between. I connect both drives to the MacBook pro via USB and they are buss powered. I set up a software mirrored raid with them, so when I dump directly from the card to the drives I have two copies (just in case something goes wrong). I then dump this mirrored drive to my editing computers stripped raid when I am ready to edit. When the mirrored drive gets full, I take the gaff-tape off and put one of the drives in our media closet as an archive (mirrored drives can boot as single drives without any problem). I then tape a new Maxtor 320gb drive to the other drive and re-format them as a new mirrored raid for dumping. It may sound involved, but it is really easy to keep up with, and I always have my data on two drives this way. Incidentally, I don't really notice a difference in speed from dumping to the USB mirrored raid verses the internal drive. I like it, but it may not work for everyone. ;-)
 
Thanks for that mate.

Looks like I'm going to have to invest in a cheap laptop then. The RAID 1 array seems like a fantastic idea. I'll keep that in mind :)

Cheers
 
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