External Drives

giacomino

giacomino

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I am searching for an external drive that I can cart around. The drive is primarily using to off load quick time files/movies, etc.. from my mac (using FCP) to either a PC or another MAC. One producer has a Mac and another has a PC. I don't want to be burning DVD's and I don't want to take my G-Raid drive.

Thanks in advance for your input.

Jimmy
 
My personal opinion would be to avoid the Lacie portable because of the build quality of its case. If you are looking for bus-powered portable HDs, I would look at the Glyph drives, which are very well built, but a little more expensive, or the Smartdisk Firlelite drives, which are available with 7200rpm disks. Both have sturdy cases and use the firewire interface, so will also be a bit faster than the Lacie portables.
 
External Drives

Thanks for all your input. I am going to Mac Mall today to check out these drives. I do like the price range of the LaCie 160gig, $172.00 with 800/400/USB. I need both firewire and USB ports. Also, this is really only for transporting.

Jimmy
 
that'll work just fine. firewire is always annoyingly overpriced, especially on lacies, but we used two of them on our shoot in ireland and flew back with no problems. they travel well.

does your PC client have macdrive? if so, i would format the lacie in journaled HFS, because macs can read NTFS but not write to it, and FAT32 is only good for files up to 4 gigs in size.
 
Mr. Wrong...thanks for your advice....i'm not sure about the macdrive. all i want to do is transfer quicktime movie files from my mac to their mac or pc. so i need to be able to write and read. is this possible? i was told that i need to have a drive that has fat32.

thanks
 
fat32 is only good for files up to 4 gigs. so you can have a 4 gig quicktime file but if you had one that's 5 or more then it won't go on there.

macs can READ NTFS but they can't write to NTFS. PCs can read and write to NTFS, but can't read or write Mac journaled drives unless you get a program called macdrive. Then the PC can read/write mac journaled drives.

If your files are smaller than 4 gig, then go with fat32, but if you have a file that's DV and half an hour long, that's 6 gigs.
 
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