Recommended external FW drives (was Formatting Hard Drive)

[David Crump]

I would NOT recomment the QPS M3 100GB 7200rpm Firewire drive that I unfortunately bought. I bought it due to the stylish compact design for portability.  I've not been happy with it at all.  It seems to be my main cause of freeze-ups and kernel panics.  I also cannot seem to import DV without dropped frames even though it is 7200rpms.  I didn't realize at first, as I was using iMovie.  Then I noticed the jerkiness in the video.  Then I bought Final Cut Express which can abort on dropped frames.  It aborts immediately!
I've checked QPS's support site, and since I bought the drive over a year ago, it still says they don't support the M3 drive under OS X.  What a crock.
</end rant>
Dave.

On Wednesday, December 03, 2003, at 07:55AM, Macintosh Digital Video List 

>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?
>>
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