Dedicated firewire HD

GVP wrote on 4/4/2003, 11:38 AM
I have an on going video project (SKYTRON Video display) that I want to keep a dedicated hardrive just for this company to keep all video intact and not tie up normal Slave hardrive with archived video. Will an external firewire HD handled the recording, editing and DVD burning for Vegas Video and DVD Architect??? I am using a Pentium IV 2 ghz with 512 ram, 80 gb master HD, Windows 98SE. 40 gb Slave Hardrive is for other different video productions. Also considering Sony DRU 500AX for DVD burner. Any neg/pos opinions??? Thanks, Bob Foster

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way2slo wrote on 4/4/2003, 12:14 PM
well depending on your budget.
if you are willing to spend, take a look at the Glyph drive. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/sid=030404110646207006217026221848/search/g=home/detail/base_id/103757 this is the best external my opinion.
if you dont want to spend too much, take a look at the Pyro ADS firewire case, stick your new hardrive in there. i have a coolmax combo case.
http://www.coolmaxusa.com/product/pd_list/product_cb_list_01.html it works great, i paid $100 cdn for it, same oxford 911 chip as the Pyro ADS.
you can also install a raid card for the third ide harddrive if you dont need a portable drive.
the last options is get a removable harddrive rack, costs you $15 some dollar.



bakerja wrote on 4/4/2003, 12:15 PM
I use a firewire 80gb drive for transporting material between work and home. While is is not as fast as the IDE variety, it works quite well. I have not tried burning a DVD from that drive, but working within vegas works. When I initially setup the drive, windows 2000 set it up as a Dynamic disk. This caused lots of problems. I recommend making sure it is a basic disk. Since I converted it to a basic disk, I have had no problems at all.

JAB
jbrawn wrote on 4/4/2003, 5:47 PM
I bought a Western Digital external 200 GB firewire drive a couple of months ago for $299 US (Fry's Electronics weekend sale). It is a 7200 RPM drive mechanism with 8 Mb of cache.

I'm able to capture, edit, write to DVD at 2.4x, and print to DV without any problems (HP Pavilion 2.26 Ghz, 512 Mbyte, 3 firewire ports, XP Pro, NTFS on all drives).

I've also noticed that I can speed up rendering by about 15% by rendoring to the firewire drive if all of my source files are on the internal IDE drive. I also get a similar improvement going the other way. I think the disk drives are happier when one is only reading and one is only writing.

Good Luck,

John.


By the way, Fry's is selling the same drive mechanism (200 Gbyte, 7200RPM, 8 Mbyte cache, "DV Capable") for $149 today and tomorrow on sale with rebate. $0.75 per Gigabyte is getting pretty reasonable.

J.