I'd like to move to doing more editing of videos and music off of an
external hard drive... I've used LaCie drives for that before, and that
seemed to work ok. But wanted to find out you amazing video peeps suggest -
what would you buy/what do you use?
Thanks!
David Lee King
davidleeking.com -
I did a bit of research on this before buying 2 months ago, because
I've been burnt by Lacie more than once - and kept going back because
of price. But they end up costing twice as much because they fail so
quickly.
I was recommended Western Digital by a couple of pro video people, but
I've been very happy with the 500GB OWC drive I bought last year. Priced
right, sits upright or not, and it's quite. Check it out.
Tom Dolan
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:20 AM, David Lee King davidleek...@gmail.comwrote:
I'd like to move to doing more editing of videos and music off of an
they all fail.
when i start playing with fcp it seams that my externals never stop spinning
i have been useing the usb 2 passport wd ones lately
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote:
I did a bit of research on this before buying 2 months ago, because
I've
David Lee King: I'd like to move to doing more editing of videos and music
off of an external hard drive...
Hi David:
Well, for whatever its worth, I'd suggest NOT editing directly from an
external but rather using one (or more) for archival purposes. Lots of
reasons for this yet suffice it to
The MyBook drives seem to be a good option for archival use, but I
have to say ghat I've never had them perform well for use when
editing. The Fantom drives and some Lacies have been best on my
system. So if you think you might push some of the editing to an
external, I recommend those
I should add that Western Digital *internal* drives have always performed very
well for me.
On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Robert Millis wrote:
The MyBook drives seem to be a good option for archival use, but I
have to say ghat I've never had them perform well for use when
editing. The
To get the best of both worlds, I use one of these:
http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/docking_stations/sata_quickport_pro/index_en.html?id=2
It allows me to hot-plug any SATA drive, and provides both USB2 and
SATA connections. They even make one with USB3.
I have a stack of regular internal
