External Hard Drive requirements
Hi,
I'm looking to purchase an external hard drive and was wondering if it needs to have certain requirements to make it work with video and graphics... basically i'll use it to save my work done on FCStudio... any information is more than welcome...
thanks...
Next time try to be more specific with regard to what format you are editing.
Reason being that if you are editing DV or HDV even a FW400 could do FW 800 even better especially if you are dealing with less compressed HD formats (DVCPRO HD to start from the bottom).
eSATA is a good choice if you are editing ProRes, uncompressed SD/HD etc
Anyways, here some useful links:
http://www.caldigit.com/S2VRDuo.asp
http://www.caldigit.com/products.asp
http://www.dulcesystems.com/html/products.html
http://www.g-technology.com/Products/Products.cfm
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/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 250.1 GB disk0s2
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CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 883A56F4-5559-4872-A8DA-960F99655B63
=========================================================
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Online
Size: 250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
Free Space: 8921088 B (8.9 MB)
|
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| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
|
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Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: AES-XTS
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Fully Secure: Yes
Passphrase Required: Yes
|
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Disk: disk1
Status: Online
Size (Total): 249779191808 B (249.8 GB)
Conversion Progress: -none-
Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)
LV Name: Macintosh HD
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
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/dev/disk1 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
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Part of Whole: disk2
Device / Media Name: WD My Book 111A Media
File System: None
Content (IOContent): GUID_partition_scheme
OS Can Be Installed: No
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: USB
SMART Status: Not Supported
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Volume Free Space: Not applicable (no file system)
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
Read-Only Media: No
Read-Only Volume: Not applicable (no file system)
Ejectable: Yes
File System: None
Content (IOContent): GUID_partition_scheme
OS Can Be Installed: No
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~ belambert$ |
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~ belambert$ =========================================================
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Whole: Yes
Internal: No
OS 9 Drivers: No
Low Level Format: Not supported
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~ belambert$ diskutil list
Whole: Yes
Internal: No
OS 9 Drivers: No
Low Level Format: Not supported
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