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Title: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: DarK. on August 25, 2005, 07:38:51 am I do alot of movie making with my friends, so I am looking into getting an external hard drive in which to store these movies on. I want the thing to be able to write fast, and store alot, for a good price. Anyone who has experience in this please provide.
Thanks, Dark. Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: theweakspot on August 25, 2005, 09:43:09 am I usually buy the hard drive enclosure and the drive itself seperately. Not only do I find this to be cheaper, but better in long run. I have one case here that I really like and I have used a 60, 75, 100, 120gb drive with. If i want to upgrade the size of the drive, then i only need to buy a new HD. It just works for my needs.
Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: *DAMN Mauti on August 25, 2005, 11:41:34 am I just bought a Formac Oxygen FW HD with 250Gbyte.
The first thing I did was removing the fan, which is really annoying and following the hd temperatur it wasn't necessary at all - it's much cooler than my PB harddisk, however beside that the reason why I bought this HD is that you can add a second harddisk later to the same enclosure. So far I'm satisfied, however I think there are more beautiful enclosures(the Formac is just some crappy white plastic) and if you need only one disk don't take it, there are cheaper ones out there. Bye, Mauti http://www.formac.de/Produkte/storage/harddisk/hddo.html Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on August 25, 2005, 04:01:59 pm This is like the one I recently purchased. 400GB external Firewire and USB 2.0 with pretty blue LED lights at the bottom that look really cool and an aluminum enclosure that matches my G5 and new Apple 20-in Cinema Display.
400GB External Hard Drive on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/Seagate-400GB-8MB-7200RPM-USB-External-Hard-Disk-Drive_W0QQitemZ5234636095QQcategoryZ80179QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: BTs_FahQ2 on August 25, 2005, 04:03:17 pm buffalo makes some sexy externals that can be networked or direct linked. Or, if you really do a lot of editing, find a small 2 or 3 HD NAS unit. It will run you about $600 - $800, but you also get a small Raid system for backup and it's relatively quick.
Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: :MoD:Shade on August 25, 2005, 04:49:58 pm I like the LaCie Hardrives - especially the triple interface ones so you can use whatever connection depending on how old your computer is.
Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: jerkasaur on August 26, 2005, 03:09:11 am LaCIE Bigger Disk extreme allows to to record directly onto that hard drive without the loss of frames that you would normally suffer. Any LaCIE D2 drive does that same.
Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: cottonmouth on August 26, 2005, 09:29:59 pm I use a ProMax, 250gig, (7200RPM necessary for video) for my FCP and Avid Express Pro media. Works great, never any problems.
Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: DarK. on September 14, 2005, 11:52:21 pm what do you guys think of this one: LACIE 250 gb porsche external Fire wire Hard Drivehttp://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~267264.asp
Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: Civrock on September 14, 2005, 11:59:20 pm Have the 160GB version of it. It's good and fast, but gets a little hot. Doesn't affect the data or its reliability, though. If you don't want to spend more then this is the external HD you want.
Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: (SiX)Sheixhundt on September 15, 2005, 12:24:10 am Thats just what i was looking for Dark.
Thanks! Ive heard nothing but good stuff about it. I think im gonna jump. Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: BFG on September 15, 2005, 12:41:39 am I've got more bloody HD's than i know where to start.
External? For Video editing etc? well if you can go with a Firewire 800 RAID set up, Im pretty drunk right now so i can't remember the name of the guys i got my enclosure from, but it has two 250GB drives i can't remember the names of inside. And Lacie, they are drunk as well. good drives and you can rack them up - excellent for storing video, in terms of fast read write - Firewire 800 is going to make a lot more pints than firewire 400. -- no no no no, not good Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: Civrock on September 15, 2005, 12:44:53 am Aaaawwww! (http://cosgan.de/images/smilie/liebe/s020.gif)
Edit: Pfft... you deleted it. Title: Re: Buying a good External Hard Drive. Post by: BFG on September 15, 2005, 12:48:16 am did i just say that? oh get me a whisky, i havn't got a hope in hell
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