I'm looking for something else to use with my cameras other than tapes to capture video and am very intersted in the portable DV hard drives. I found this one on B&H:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=292548&is=REG

I use Canon GL2's and edit on the MAC in FCP. I want to be able to capture footage to such a drive so it can be downloaded or read by FCP just like it was a tape so I can detect timecode breaks (where I started and stopped recording during the shoot). I also want it to operate or record just like things would be recorded to a tape by using the record/pause button on the camera. Also, I want it to be as portable as can be because I'm very mobile on my shoots.

Does anyone have any suggestions or reviews of the one I linked to here? I'm curious to see who and how many people have gone this route.

Let me know!

Matt

A simple harddisk will not work (since it does not see the firewire
signal and the harddisk does not understand the camera). You
need a special device (called direct-to-disk device) which is some
electronics with a harddisk.

We have a couple of dedicated forums for these devices here:

Direct-to-Disk (Tapeless) Recording Solutions (http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=60) (our general forum)

and two device specific forums:

Focus Enhancements FireStore D.T.E. Recorders (http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=65)
MCE Technologies QuickStream DV (http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=66)