GH13 Great portable hard drive backup solution

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Blackout

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Just thought I would let you guys know that after toying with tons of ways of
moving large amounts of data to and from desktop and laptop, I found the best drive so far to be the Seagate GoFlex pro usb 3.0

I have toyed with them all... usb 2.0 (bleeeech slow) esata (fast but not really portable you need wall wart plugs) firewire 400 & 800.

By far, the fastest external hard drive so far I have seen is the GoFlex Pro 750 gig.
With usb 3.0 transferring big sequential files I have hit 130 megs a second transfer rate, and with transferring non sequential files it averages between 50 to 90 megs a second)

It's tiny, about the size of a wallet, come with a nice wallet like protective case, is usb powered, and is 7200 rpm so you it's fast and you can edit right on it with ease. Plus, at about $100 bucks you can't go wrong. It also comes with two usb 3.0 cables. One is a little dock base station for you desktop, and then one for the drive on the go with laptops ect.

Even better is the fact thats it's one of the few drives that can be read on both Win 7 and Mac. So I can bring it to Mac clients and dump footage to them.

It can also easily snap off and change cable types, so you can use any cable you want...

Great little drive, but there are a LOT of them out there - don't be confused make sure it is goflex pro usb 3.0 - I did the tests and that one rocked the others in speed.
 
oh I thought you can plug in your SD card into the HD in the field and do a copy...

useless without a laptop with you...
 
I went with the Seagate GoFlex 1.5 TB 3.0 drive and I hate it. The stupid cable connector will not stay in the drive and the adapter on the drive is so flimsy it is about to break off and render the drive useless.

Does the Seagate drive you have use an adapter to allow you to connect different types of cables to it? If so it is the worst design I have ever seen.


Blackout said:
Just thought I would let you guys know that after toying with tons of ways of
moving large amounts of data to and from desktop and laptop, I found the best drive so far to be the Seagate GoFlex pro usb 3.0

I have toyed with them all... usb 2.0 (bleeeech slow) esata (fast but not really portable you need wall wart plugs) firewire 400 & 800.

By far, the fastest external hard drive so far I have seen is the GoFlex Pro 750 gig.
With usb 3.0 transferring big sequential files I have hit 130 megs a second transfer rate, and with transferring non sequential files it averages between 50 to 90 megs a second)

It's tiny, about the size of a wallet, come with a nice wallet like protective case, is usb powered, and is 7200 rpm so you it's fast and you can edit right on it with ease. Plus, at about $100 bucks you can't go wrong. It also comes with two usb 3.0 cables. One is a little dock base station for you desktop, and then one for the drive on the go with laptops ect.

Even better is the fact thats it's one of the few drives that can be read on both Win 7 and Mac. So I can bring it to Mac clients and dump footage to them.

It can also easily snap off and change cable types, so you can use any cable you want...

Great little drive, but there are a LOT of them out there - don't be confused make sure it is goflex pro usb 3.0 - I did the tests and that one rocked the others in speed.
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I recently bough a 1TB "My Passport" Western Digital from Costco for $90 while on sale. Costco online does not show it any more, but some stores may still have some. It is an awesome portable drive that also works off the USB port only. Here is a Photo:
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I do dump with cards but that is only going about 20 megs per second to dump the raw footage to a laptop or portable drive.

This is for when I have a massive edit that needs to be backed up or archived so it can be edited on another machine or when I am moving huge amounts of data.

20mb a sec doesn't cut the mustard I need speed man speed.
 
@mpg there are a LOT of "GoFlex" drives I found the only useful ones to be the goflex PRO which are harder to find. They spin at 7200 rpm..... I like the cable attachment thing you can put whatever interface you want on it. USB 3.0 is by far the best and will show you the max speed of the drive.
 
As far as INTERNAL drives go. SAMSUNG all the way.

The 5200 rpm 2 tb get 130 megs per second sustained and the 7200 rpm get up to 160 megs per second sustained.
 
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