David Scattergood
March 20th, 2007, 11:37 AM
Soon to make a purchase on a gtech graid drive: I need to extra drive space plus I'm soon to begin shooting HDV (via the Firewire 800) which is possibly the best way for my iMac to cope.
I was going to get hold of the 500gb version but have found a 1Tb version for what I consider a very good price (£420...other companies are charging at least £700- £770 for the same machine).
Little bit unsure as to the best way to organise this drive with my mac set up:
I'm told this drive should be striped and I presume as default i.e. I won't have to set up/tell the mac to split the drive?
But I'm now also thinking of having my FCP et al mirrored? I don't suppose (you can probably tell I was never a computer geek and I'm fairly new to mac land also!) I could mirror along the same lines as the striped disk? If not, may it be wiser to get hold of two smaller g-raid drives, have one striped whilst mirroring with the 2nd drive?
And is it a case of moving the FCP progamme (and it's associated files) from the current internal drive to the new external drive/s?
Curious as to how you folks deal with backing up...I've shot quite a few hours of footage of late and my hard drive has desperately sunk - I will probably burn to disk the numerous 'self contained movies' as these also take up a lot of space (client required hundreds of small clips rather than raw footage/edited sequences).
Apologies if this is more of a Mac forum question and slightly out of the digital video jurisdiction (I'll stick a post on that forum just in case).
Many thanks.
I was going to get hold of the 500gb version but have found a 1Tb version for what I consider a very good price (£420...other companies are charging at least £700- £770 for the same machine).
Little bit unsure as to the best way to organise this drive with my mac set up:
I'm told this drive should be striped and I presume as default i.e. I won't have to set up/tell the mac to split the drive?
But I'm now also thinking of having my FCP et al mirrored? I don't suppose (you can probably tell I was never a computer geek and I'm fairly new to mac land also!) I could mirror along the same lines as the striped disk? If not, may it be wiser to get hold of two smaller g-raid drives, have one striped whilst mirroring with the 2nd drive?
And is it a case of moving the FCP progamme (and it's associated files) from the current internal drive to the new external drive/s?
Curious as to how you folks deal with backing up...I've shot quite a few hours of footage of late and my hard drive has desperately sunk - I will probably burn to disk the numerous 'self contained movies' as these also take up a lot of space (client required hundreds of small clips rather than raw footage/edited sequences).
Apologies if this is more of a Mac forum question and slightly out of the digital video jurisdiction (I'll stick a post on that forum just in case).
Many thanks.