[MacDV] Re: imovie storage

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 09:38  PM, Juan Mariscal wrote:

>
> Norm:
>
> My suggestion is to get an external hard drive.
>
> Internal hard drives right now cost less than $1/ per Gigabyte.
>
> Check Staples, Office Max or CompUSA for deals. Get a, as a minimum, 
> at 7200 rpm, 8mb cache IDE hard drive. You should be able to install 
> this pretty quickly in your G$ tower. I forget when the next open 
> forum is but someone could do it for you if you want. It is very 
> simple to do. Don't worry about drivers, it will work. the trickiest 
> part (IF you have to do this) is to get the master/slave relationship 
> between the two done correctly the first time.
>
> Alternatively, you can do what I have done and that is buy an internal 
> drive and put it in an external case.
>
> go to http://www.compgeeks.com/specials.asp?cat=MAC
> and check out the external cases there. I managed to find one 
> (firewire) that accommodated two hard drives (for about $55). To 
> install those hard drives took about 15 minutes. To connect it to the 
> Mac took about 2 seconds. I did this since I am constantly connecting 
> these externals to different computers that don't have the ability to 
> add another hard drive (iMac and powerbooks).
>
>
> to check for deals, go to http://www.dealmac.com or 
> http://www.dealsontheweb.com
>
> there should be a number of HD available at very good prices both 
> before and after rebates.
>
> I would get at least 120G and devote it entirely to video and NOTHING 
> else. Once you are done with a video project download the video files 
> on to one or more DVDs (4.7G/DVD) for safe keeping. When you off load 
> a file delete it from the hard drive and then run some utility on the 
> hard drive to remove any fragmentation of the hard drive to keep it 
> moving quickly.
>
>
> good luck
>
>
> Juan
>

Seriously considering that we are talking about a tower I cannot see 
the advantage of an external unless
A; you carry it around with you, or
B; you can't use a screwdriver and hook up two simple plugs.

J