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Feral_Films wrote on 12/16/2004, 2:43 PM
my coworker has an external lacie 500bg drive and it works great.
the only thing is we had to get a pcmcia firewire 800 card because his firewire port was a 400
once we did that, no problems, also works darn fast with usb2
now realize external storage will not be as fast as internal, but if you have SATA on your MB then you can use a passthru card on your expansion slots and plug your sata and molex power cords right into the back of your pc and have your external HD plugged into SATA chains, but thats a bit much.
if you have room insude your case get more ide or scsi chains and internal drives.
if not, get a bigger case.
if none of the above will work, then external lacie style drives are the way to go

my coworker renders with the source files on a lacie to his internal drive and its close to the speed of an ata100 drive. on firewire800

peace in the metro-east
farss wrote on 12/16/2004, 2:49 PM
We use a firewire enclosure that takes a caddy, it's hooked up to a laptop and used exclusively for capture from DSR-11. Once the drive is full we unplug the caddy, plug it into the main PC and have full IDE speed. Plug another caddy ont enclosure and keep capturing. Very simple arrangement.
Eventually we hope to replace all this with a NAS and 1GB copper. I'm told with a good switch we can run 4 streams of uncompressed video, with DV25 I doubt we'll fit enough PCs in the place to strain the system.
Be warned, some of those Monsta LaCie things are 4 drive in some form of RAID, loose on drive and you've lost the lot from what I know.
Bob.
daharvey wrote on 12/16/2004, 4:26 PM
I use an external Seagate 160gb (via firewire) and it works great. I have never lost a frame while capturing to it and rendering seems to work as fast as my internal drives. I plan to purchase an external Seagate 300gb or 400gb in the very near future.
musman wrote on 12/16/2004, 8:08 PM
Also, unless you have a server-type computer, you won't be getting the full fw800 speed.
Also, apparently the G-Raid maintains its speed better than the Lacie:
http://www.barefeats.com/fire46.html

Only feedback I've heard is one unhappy Mac user with a G-Raid and one happy one with a 1 terebyte Lacie.
rmack350 wrote on 12/16/2004, 11:00 PM
I once timed the renders to a few disks from my P3 700 laptop and discovered that the renders were just as fast to my parallel port zip drive as they were to the 1394 drive. Just illustrates that renders may not be as fast as the write to disk. In my case that was a pretty slow render!

Rob Mack
RZ wrote on 12/17/2004, 3:59 AM
What enclosure do you use. I have a ADS but I have not succeded so far. I have a 200 G Seagate in it. I am told that it does not take more than 127 G although I purchased the ADS bay only a month ago.
RZ wrote on 12/17/2004, 4:00 AM
The idea of caddy sounds great. Could you give me little more info about the brand and setup. Thanks
daharvey wrote on 12/17/2004, 8:06 PM
The external Seagate 160gb drive I use is 100% Seagate (drive and enclosure). Seagate has recently started selling a 300gb and a 400gb model. Also, the enclosure are stackable and very queit.
Feral_Films wrote on 12/18/2004, 5:38 PM
im interested in what you have to say about the lacie drive.
the studio has a 500gb lacie, would that be a raid setup?
also, can anyone tell me where to get more transitions and FX for vegas?
i cant seem to find anything that pops right out and says "hey i am a filter pack for vegas" if you follow me.
and 1 last thing... how much should i pay for a used XL-1 (or 2 from same person)