[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[Brent Radbourne]

I've been using a couple of 60 gig La Cie drives for a couple of years 
now with excellent results.

Brent
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 09:44  AM, Paul Williams wrote:

> 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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