Best external harddrive for video editing.

Hey all,
I'm looking at getting a new external hard drive. I need speed over capacity and wondered what people thought of the g-raid systems?
Much thanks, mungo.

I love G-Raid. Nothing but good things to say about them. I had a bad drive... dropped it off at their office in Santa Monica at 9:30am and picked it up same day at 5:45 and I'm just a little guy.
They did have some issues with power supplies for a short run, but quickly cleared it up. On the Customer Service side, they also got overwhelmed due to rapid growth, but quickly addressed the issue.
Heck.. they even fixed a client's drive that I dropped off as a courtesy to the client, at no charge, and saved all data. It was 1 year out of warranty. That my friends... is Customer Service at it's finest.
In my book they are the best. I don't think I'll ever see LaCie, Seagate, Maxtor, or Western Digital provide that kind of top-notch service.
Sorry you had a bad experience Studio X, but these guys are the cream of the crop in my book.
Cheers!

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Hi there,
as NLEdit said, there will be loads of answers to this.
IMO i'd avoid drobo like the plague. G tech drives have served me incredibly well working on a huge variety of broadcast projects (just over the water from you in Bristol), I've had no probs with FW800 when using DVCproHD, pro res is ok, sometimes a little slow with multiple layers and of course it eats up storage space. so I'd go for 2 4tb drives, keep the backup one in a different location.
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mac os extended (not journalled)
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partition 2 - the rest of available storage and call "drive a"
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I am a final cut child who grew up on it and love it however everything I am doing in last few years is on AVID...
Have a second monitor..
I am very portable and rest of the gear I usually get where ever I work at.. I am looking into getting a good broadcast monitor connected with AJA thunderbolt..
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Be more specific and you will get clearer answers..

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