[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[Paul Williams]

Is there an external drive most people would recommend for video 
editing and backup on a G5?


>I would have to completely disagree...  For any kind of media work 
>which involves CONSTANT writing, deleting, rewriting to a disk, a 
>dedicated disk or partition will make everything run SOOO much 
>smoother as time goes on -- especially on OS X systems with their 
>500,000 tiny files for the system and apps.  And what's the 
>advantage of doing video capture to a journalled file system? 
>Journalling is nice for regular usage, but slows things down a bit 
>-- if you have a super-fast G4 or a G5, it's probably not a big 
>problem, but I think even Apple recommends against doing video 
>capture to a journalled disk.  And what to do you mean by "RAID 
>protection" if you mean RAID 1 (mirrored), this is yet another way 
>to slow down the performance of your hard drives -- the same data 
>has to be written TWICE (once to each disk).  RAID 0 is actually the 
>way to go for fast performance, but cuts your data integrity down 
>for each disk you ad to the RAID set (the more disks in a RAID 0 
>array, the more chance you have of losing data due to a disk 
>failure).  If you're working with video and your drive craps out, 
>you just have to re-capture the video (keep copies of the project 
>files on a separate drive if you're worried about drive failure). 
>About organization -- what's wrong with that?  If it helps you work 
>better, then do it.
>
>Another 2 cents.
>
>- Mark
>
>On Dec 3, 2003, at 5:07 AM, Peter van der Linden wrote:
>
>>  Partitions were useful when disks were much smaller, and we needed 
>>to separate out the fixed size stuff from the variable sized stuff. 
>>Nowadays there is much less justification for using multiple 
>>partitions.  The right disk technology is one or two partitions, 
>>journalled filesystems, and RAID protection.  Anything else is just 
>>organization for its own sake.
>
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