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External HD recommendation

post #1 of 5
9/20/05 at 9:49pm
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I will be editing with my Dell 9300 and need an external HD for the video files. Any recommendations for a large drive with sufficient speed to guarantee smooth video playback?
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post #2 of 5
9/21/05 at 12:33am
My USB2 drive does about 25 Mbs. You'll probably get that with either Firewire or USB2. Firewire uses less processor. I'd say any 7200 RPM drive will give you similar results.
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post #3 of 5
9/21/05 at 1:42am
ozoneets,

I recommend get an external sata enclosure. You can get them fairly cheap. and buy a nice size 7200rpm sata hdd. Also get a pcmcia sata card. you'll get about 40-50mbps.

I currently have two sata 250gb Seagate barracudas that i have in external sata enclosures that i use with my sata pcmcia. I use one for recording video the other for storage and scratch disk.

just my two cents.
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post #4 of 5
9/21/05 at 11:36am
I currently have the NexStar2 USB2.0 Drive Enclosure from Vantec with a 250gb EIDE 7200rpm HD. Works perfectly fine, also supported under linux.
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post #5 of 5
9/21/05 at 10:54pm
i have a maxtor DM9 80gb 8mb cache in a bytec fanless enclousure.

i get 32mb/s transfer. this is very fast considering average is 25ish!

pm me ill give you a link. its like 30$ on newegg.
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