western digital premium book

Mark Dog

Mark Dog

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looking to buy a western digital premium book external harddrive 500 gb 16mb buffer for 329 bucks firewitres and usb 2.0 does anyone know amnything about these drives if there good or have and experience using them ????????? i


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Mark Dog
 
my buddy has a western digital 300gb ext. hd and it was formatted as fat32.... had several problems. i was going to reformat it but he left for notre dame before we had the chance.

not sure about them.
 
I think you'd have better luck posting this in the Marketplace forum instead of the DVX Footage forum.
 
I bought the 500GB MyBook thinking it was a deal - especially with the 16mb buffer. I found it way too slow for video editing - digitizing into FCP tends to bail out. (I did not reformat the drive, though, just started using it.) I highly recommend the G-RAID series, as they have two drives striped together in a RAID 0 in one firewire 400/800 case. Mine has been fast and flawless - I even see more realtime response in SD editing with them. They also dropped prices recently, making it a real good deal. I have been using the MyBook 500GB for backups now - anyone think if I reformat the drive it will be more friendly toward video-editing?
 
i bought a western digital usb drive a year ago. thankfully, all i use it for is
streaming mp3's. if your going to be editing footage off it, i would suggest
getting a model that is firewire compatible. it is substantially faster.

edit: here is link to one on pricegrabber that has both: link
 
what i gathering from readig is do i buy it ???? or not or if i do buy it just reformat it ??????
 
from what i belive the firewire is faster if im incorrect then let me know and what way should the drive be formated it if i purchased it ?????
 
Stay with firewire. I just bought a Maxtor Firewire/300gb from costco for 159-. I also like Lacie, I have 6 of them!
 
PixelWrangler said:
Just seen the WD My Book 500gb 7200 rpm drives with Firewire/USB2 at Costco today - they caught my attention, but I'm not sure how they'll do as an external video drive. Packaging didn't mention if it had a cooling fan.

They go for $250.
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11124492&whse=BC&topnav=&browse=
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After reformatting my MyBook Premium 500 to Mac OS Extended (not journaled) I now can recommend it to you, Mark Dog - it has been great for video editing in FCP.

Note: It comes PC formatted and that makes for rotten video editing perforance. Also it has a weird auto on/off switch. Basically when you get the drive:
First attach it to your Mac and install the "WD Button Utility"that comes on the drive - this will automatically shut the drive down when you shut down your Mac.
Then use the Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) and go to the Partition tab and change the drive to have a couple partitions in Mac OS Extended format.

Besides, you will have a hard time beating a price of 250 bones for a 500GB tank.
 
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