[MacDV] External hard drive for video work

[Neil Poese]

Brett,

I've used a variety of external FW400 drives over the years in my high 
school Mac video lab. My most recent drives are a G-Drive bought from 
B&H and a Promax drive. Both of them have been great and seem to run 
cool. Absolutely stay away from LaCie.

Neil Poese

Brett Conlon wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking into purchasing a 400-500GB external drive for assisting me in 
>doing my home (and maybe in the near future freelance) video work.
>
>I've been looking primarily at FW800 drives but these all come at a 
>premium price. It'll be my Christmas present and funds are quite tight so 
>I'm not able to openly "throw" cash at a solution. I'd like to go 500GB 
>but think 400GB is going to be the more likely outcome cost-wise.
>
>In your experience is FW800 that much faster than FW400? Is anyone quite 
>happily using USB2 drives for their video work, seeing that USB2 drives 
>are more common and cheaper?
>
>I believe that you can't boot a G4/G5 off a USB2 drive (you can with Intel 
>Macs) but that may not be such a big issue for me as I currently have a 
>120GB ext FW400 drive which I would use for those sorts of tasks.
>
>I've been told to avoid the LaCie drives as their failure rate is quite 
>high. Any other drive recommendations, including raw drives if I end up 
>purchasing drive & case separately?
>
>Your suggestions are most welcome!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Cojcolds
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