[MacDV] Re: Which bus-powered, portable FW drive do you recommend for DV?

ShirleyK ShirleyKat at cox.net
Mon Jun 16 18:01:44 PDT 2003


I heard that iPods are not designed for sustained disk activity and 
that you can damage them by continuous reading and writing. Since I 
heard that, I've used my 2nd generation one as a hard disk only to 
transfer stuff (sneakernet).

Shirley

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 09:59  AM, Dan Willson wrote:

> Has anyone experimented with either revision iPod yet? We just got a 
> 30 GB
> model for sneakernet action (10BaseT everywhere except in my office, 
> which
> doubles as the server closet) but our editor is too swamped for my
> mad-scientist experiments, let alone to finally upgrade her TiBook to 
> Mac OS
> X and Final Cut Pro 3 (yes, FCP3). TIL article 60920 doesn't even 
> touch the
> subject.
>
> Dan Willson
> UAB Media Relations
> ponyboy at uab.edu
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