[MacDV] Need a hard drive

[Richard Brown]

The price of large SCSI drives are so pricey as to make doing a RAID 
not extremely advisable, particularly if your requirement is DV or 
DVCAM editing.

I recently did an IDE RAID with two Western Digital 200GB drives, 
which, by the way MUST be set up using OS 10.2.2's internal RAID setup, 
as the IDE RAID software is useless. This RAID runs, after current WD 
rebates, under $500 for a 370+ GB  RAID as formatted, with better than 
65MB/sec continuous read, and better than 45MB/sec write, which is 
almost uncompressed video quality (not quite) but exceptionally good 
for DV and audio work.

In addition, there is a new drive lineup, called MaxLine, from Maxtor, 
due in the U.S. sometime next year. These IDE drives are enterprise 
level drives, which formerly were fiber channel, but now with an IDE 
interface. These drives will be the most robust IDE drives (and LARGEST 
at 200, 250, and 320 GB) on the market, with claimed "enterprise level" 
something like million hour between failure performance  (read that 
"beyond your needs prior to retirement").

On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 06:02 PM, Gina A. Razete wrote:

> I have a request for information.
>
> I have a G4 using Jaguar.  I want to buy a 146+GB internal hard drive 
> to
> use with my Ultra 160 SCSI (68 pin).  It is for video storage use (so I
> will set it up as a RAID drive).