[MacDV] Re: Need a hard drive

[Shirley Kehr]

Richard,

Have you heard about the 400 and 500 GB drives LaCie is supposed to
have? They are external FireWire and rather pricey ($900 and $1000). The
400 runs at 7200; the 500 runs at 5400. Just wondered what you thought
of them. I saw the article on MacWorld's site.

Shirley


Richard Brown wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 
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