Wow, I've been pricing out my next machine and I hadn't seen that Toshiba before. The 64gb solid state alone makes me want it.
That's always a battle for me, because I feel like I *should* get a Mac because of all the motion and editing I do, but then I start pricing them out and realize I can have nearly double the processing power in a PC for the same price. And really half the reason I'd be buying a Mac would be to use their proprietary codecs and shit, which I hate to give in to. Feels like I'm paying them to make my life harder. As an editor, I literally stand up and leave the room if I pull a file from a client's drive and it's in ProRES or some other Mac shit. I have to leave the room, pace a bit, then come back and figure out when I can use my fiancee's mac to transcode it to a universal codec. The clients don't do it on purpose of course. They're just exporting the most intuitive way they can. But Mac does do it on purpose. My god I just hijacked this thread and tore down on Macs. Sorry, cocktail night. To sort of answer David's original question, I like external drives for archiving, but only use internal SATA drives for project media. I have a couple 500gb Caviars that do really well. Haven't had a problem for about 3 years. They're pretty cheap now too, well under $100 I think. AQ On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:57 PM, pageflex2001 <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want portability of editing on a laptop I'd suggest avoiding > external hard drives altogether. Nowadays laptop hard drives are pretty big > allowing videographers to work on the road. Of course depends on the scope > of your projects, if they are not that huge, go with the laptop drive edit. > Possibility of losing data because you accidentally moved the laptop pulling > the USB cable of the external hard drive is much greater compared if it was > hooked to a static workstation. > > A bit off topic; > > Has anyone used this mobile monster? > http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?poid=460942 > > cheers > > -Renat > Innomind.org > > --- In [email protected], David Lee King <davidleek...@...> > wrote: > > > > 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 - blog > > davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog > > twitter | skype: davidleeking > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
