[MacDV] VCR to DVD Strategy

[Nick Scalise]

> From: Patty Winter <patty1 at sonic.net>
> 
>    >From: Nick Scalise <nickscalise at cox.net>
>    >
>    >You could also just buy another firewire drive. If you buy a bare drive and an empty enclosure and build it yourself, you can get it pretty cheap.
>   
> I was going to suggest additional storage to Dennis, also, but I hadn't
> thought of homebrewing. I know that when I buy a name-brand drive, it
> comes with the right drivers for Macs and works smoothly. What would I
> have to do to accomplish the same results myself? And what kind of cost
> savings are we talking about? (The name-brand FW 800 drives seem to run 
> about $1/GB these days; less for FW 400.)

Oh, one other thing, not sure what you mean by drivers. Firewire hard drives 'just work'. They may need to be formatted, but Disk Utility easily handles that.

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Nick Scalise
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