DVX100Shooter
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Whats a good external firewire hard drive to consider? I just need something to archive some projects on.
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Firewire Hard Drive
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DVX100Shooter
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Re: Firewire Hard Drive
just out of curiousity do you have to use a different kind of firewire cable to use the 800's? If I got a 160gig or even a 200gig Lacie 400, approximately how much video can I hold on there in terms of hours? I am not going to need hours worth of storage BUT if I have several projects like I do now on my extra internal drive I want to make sure I have the space to archive them. The 500gig is nice but that is out of my budget for right now...maybe later on!
just out of curiousity do you have to use a different kind of firewire cable to use the 800's? If I got a 160gig or even a 200gig Lacie 400, approximately how much video can I hold on there in terms of hours? I am not going to need hours worth of storage BUT if I have several projects like I do now on my extra internal drive I want to make sure I have the space to archive them. The 500gig is nice but that is out of my budget for right now...maybe later on!
Sol M.
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Re: Firewire Hard Drive
The conversion goes: roughly 12GB/1 Hour of DV25 footage.
Also, if all you're doing is archiving projects, then you'll save a whole lot of money simply by getting yourself a single firewire/USB 2.0 enclosure (whichever interface you prefer, or both for maximum compatibility), and buying the bare drives as you need them. HD are always going for awsome sale prices at your local compusa/curcuitcity-type places, so you can get massive storage for awsome prices.
Whenever you've archived a project, just remove it from the enclosure, slip it in an antistatic bag, and put it into a safe and cool storage place
Lacie drives are good, but not really better than any thing else out there. They use the same components and I/O controller cards as everyone else. They basically just make the cases (tho probably outsource that too), and screw everything together. A nice enclosure with poor ventilation (which is especially important with the higher capacity disks) is not worth the premium IMHO. :-/
The conversion goes: roughly 12GB/1 Hour of DV25 footage.
Also, if all you're doing is archiving projects, then you'll save a whole lot of money simply by getting yourself a single firewire/USB 2.0 enclosure (whichever interface you prefer, or both for maximum compatibility), and buying the bare drives as you need them. HD are always going for awsome sale prices at your local compusa/curcuitcity-type places, so you can get massive storage for awsome prices.
Whenever you've archived a project, just remove it from the enclosure, slip it in an antistatic bag, and put it into a safe and cool storage place
Lacie drives are good, but not really better than any thing else out there. They use the same components and I/O controller cards as everyone else. They basically just make the cases (tho probably outsource that too), and screw everything together. A nice enclosure with poor ventilation (which is especially important with the higher capacity disks) is not worth the premium IMHO. :-/
DVX100Shooter
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Re: Firewire Hard Drive
Yea I am just going to be dragging completed projects off one drive and putting them onto the firewire drive. So your saying that I could just go with a Maxtor or Western Digital firewire drive if not a Lacie?
Yea I am just going to be dragging completed projects off one drive and putting them onto the firewire drive. So your saying that I could just go with a Maxtor or Western Digital firewire drive if not a Lacie?
DVX100Shooter
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Re: Firewire Hard Drive
well I started to get a Lacie but I was in Circuit City today and went ahead and got a Western Digital 120 gig external firewire hard drive. The thing is in a clear case and has neon lights that come on when plugged up! I guess that is the latest thing...
well I started to get a Lacie but I was in Circuit City today and went ahead and got a Western Digital 120 gig external firewire hard drive. The thing is in a clear case and has neon lights that come on when plugged up! I guess that is the latest thing...