Storage Ideas for P2 data

Thanks, Barry. After reviewing an old thread, I see that my hard drive is not going to ever work. Jan pointed out that some hard drives just don't work with the 300. This brings me to my next question - I am in need of an inexpensive USB hard drive that WILL allow me to download directly from the camera. I was trying it with an $80 Verbatim (made by Toshiba) 320GB drive. I want something small that's powered right off the USB that I can pack easily with my other gear. Can someone give me a specific hard drive recommendation? I don't need a raid or anything fancy - just something to allow me to back up footage while I'm eating lunch or taking a break.
 
Barry_Green said:
Each card gets put in its own partition. So if you offload 15 cards to the drive, and then plug the drive into a Windows system you'll see 15 new drive letters pop up on your system. If you plug it into a Mac, you'll see 15 new "NO NAME" volumes pop up on the desktop.
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Yeah - this can be a pain in Windows on a PC that has many drives and say card readers already assigned drive letters. You may have to juggle drive letters via the disk management snap in.

BD
 
and thats why the 23 you mention before is the max. ?


Barry_Green said:
No, the hard drive needs to be formatted by the camera. It will format the drive as a "Type S" drive, which means it will have one or many FAT32 partitions on it.


Each card gets put in its own partition. So if you offload 15 cards to the drive, and then plug the drive into a Windows system you'll see 15 new drive letters pop up on your system. If you plug it into a Mac, you'll see 15 new "NO NAME" volumes pop up on the desktop.
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It's the max because that's the way they designed the system. Usually a Windows system has A:, B:, and C: drives allocated, and there are only 26 possible, so the Type S drive format allows for a maximum of 23 more partitions; any more than that and they'd run out of letters!
 
Martin Rose said:
Seagate 320 GB FreeAgent Go works
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I'm bummed!! I bought a Seagate 500 GB FreeAgent Go today and it does NOT work. When I try to format the drive it is grayed out in the menu. In the upper right I see a red dot - which means no dice. Is it because I got a 500 GB drive instead of a 320 GB?

Is it possible that the latest camera update is causing this? Those are the only two possibilities...

Added: See next thread - I was wrong here!
 
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I finally figured out what I was doing wrong trying to connect a hard drive directly to the 300. It was so confusing I started a new thread to explain it. In another thread it stated that "some USB 2.0 drives don't work" - but I bet that is not true - it's just that some people (like me) couldn't figure out how to do it.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=179414
 
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