External Hard Drive

ramkuma

ramkuma

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Can anyone recommend an external hard drive to store my footage from the HMC 150? Thanks.
 
If you are looking for a scratch drive and storage, I really like my OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 Raid setup. Another member here recommended it, and it's been great.
 
If you're just looking for storage, buy an external enclosure and buy regular hard drives to put in it. Cheaper that way if you have to buy multiple drives.
 
Mike Harvey said:
If you're just looking for storage, buy an external enclosure and buy regular hard drives to put in it. Cheaper that way if you have to buy multiple drives.
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Even better.... buy a USB/eSata 'dock' and just buy bare SATA hard disks you can easily swap in and out. I use several of these : http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4296978&CatId=2785

My advice is not to buy external drives unless you have a backup power supply (which generally means buying two of the same drives). Don't rely on being able to buy spare power supplies if yours dies right at the moment you need the footage.
 
Any translations into English of the advice given here would be appreciated. I am a newbie and don' t understand "scratch drive and storage, " "enclosures," "regular hard drives," "dock," "SATA hard disks." Is there a distinction between storage and archiving? I am looking for both---storage to come back and retrieve when I am ready to edit, and archiving. Thank you!
 
Scratch drive is where you store your media independent of the drive where your applications and OS reside.

Enclosure is the case where the hard drives are installed. Enclosures can be high or poor quality, and can be connected to your computer using Firewire, USB or SATA ports.

Serial ATA drives usually spin faster than older ATA or IDE drives. Most drive sold today are SATA drives.

Storage and archiving to me are identical.

But media drives should be good quality in a good quality enclosure. Nothing MyBook or consumer. MTC.
 
Great question. I've been waiting for the WD 2tb USB 3.0 to become available at a discounter. I want the USB 3.0 so I can edit from it. Maybe I will pick up a better idea as this thread developes.
 
What I meant by "regular hard drive" was a standard internal hard drive. You can by an external enclosure... basically a shell... that easily opens up and allows you to put an internal hard drive in it.

Gladiator... I found a few SATA drive docks and enclosures on Newegg that are USB 3.0. I have the same idea as you... something I can easily edit from then quickly swap out and store when I'm not working on a project.
 
Exact said:
Even better.... buy a USB/eSata 'dock' and just buy bare SATA hard disks you can easily swap in and out. I use several of these : http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4296978&CatId=2785

My advice is not to buy external drives unless you have a backup power supply (which generally means buying two of the same drives). Don't rely on being able to buy spare power supplies if yours dies right at the moment you need the footage.
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Can you please provide a link of the "bare SATA hard disks" that you mention in your post above? Thanks.
 
David S. said:
Serial ATA drives usually spin faster than older ATA or IDE drives. Most drive sold today are SATA drives.
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Not sure where you saw this - but it's wrong. They all spin the same sort of speeds, e.g. 4200rpm, 5400rpm, 7200pm with the premium drives (usually SCSI or SAS - but not always) spinning at 10,000rpm.

The SATA bus itself is capable of transferring at higher speeds than ATA/IDE, but the drives spin at the same speed.
 
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