External SATA drive setup

Just ordered a G-Tech external SATA with a PCI card:
G-SATA - 500GB 2-drive external SATA with cooling.
Any warnings, suggestions, formatting issues?
While I am here...any suggestions on scratch disc assignment
for this set up:
- 2 internal SATA (the original plus the Maxtor)
- 2 external firewire 800s
- (and soon) the g-tech external SATA

Verify the new disk is formatted Mac OS Extended. Journalling can be either on or off. It doesn't seem to matter with the faster drives.
Working media and render files should be on either your second internal disk or the new sata disk(s). Everything else should be distributed as your personal whims dictate.
cherrios,
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Hello! I am an amateur filmmaker aged 17, and for the past couple years I have been using my school's excellent computers (iMac 2010 27"), software (FCP 7), and external hard drive setup (500GB LaCie Rugged Firewire 800).
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Do Macbook Pros have external SATA drives? I have the first build of the Macbook Pro. Thanks.

Your original post was a little unclear.
Cardbus won't work. That's basically PCMCIA - which is no longer on the machines.
For a MacBook Pro you need an Express Card 34 such as these;
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/expresscard+34esata
Then you can attach a drive to it. Take a look at the hard drives on the same site, they're quite good. They also sell enclosures you can insert a drive into so you could buy a hard drive from elsewhere, put it into an enclosure and then and then connect using esata - that will also work.
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HI,
I have an iMac G5 1.6GHZ. Am I right to say that I cannot benefit of the speed of an external SATA drive until I have a computer that has a SATA connection in the back ???
Thanks in advance.
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Thank you ... That's speed !!!
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Click on “Use for backup.”
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a) do a re-save of the project to a new folder so that you've consolidated all of the material into one place, or...
b) do a re-save of the project to a new folder, include all sampler instruments & samples and everything else except audio; keep the audio in its own folder (just as it exists on the LaCie) and copy that to your archiving medium separately.
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*OPTION 2*
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OPTION3
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Waynebru wrote:
I am using a 3ghz MacPro Quad-Core and a PCI card attached to an external box holding 4 drives. The drives mount, but hang after 2 minutes. What gives? I am also using a Sonnet PCI card with an updated driver.
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