Is this external hard drive fast enough?

Looking at this drive It is FW 800 and 7200 rpm.:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H0303VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw&mco=MTczMTA1MDI
Is there some other spec to look at or is it fast enough to edit directly off of?
Thanks.

Using what Macintosh with what version of FCP, and what camcorder?
The drive is fine, but only for specific sequences and codecs.
Help us out.
Internal RAID drives from iStoragePro, Caldigit, and G-Tech are also good but tailored to the type of work you are doing that you need to identify.

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I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?

I recently moved my Aperture Library file to an external hard drive. Can I now create a vault to be saved on my Time Capsule for the Aperture library on this external hard drive?

One thing to bear in mind, if you are using Time Machine on your Time Capsule and have it set so the TM backup includes your external drive, you will effectively be backing up your Aperture library twice on the same drive, once with Time Machine and once with the vault. This isn't a problem unless you start to run out of space.
Another thing to note, vaults on network drives used to be flaky (i.e. not really supported) and required workarounds to be able to use them. I'm not sure if this has changed, but I just managed to create a vault on my TC ok.

Is external hard drive large enough?

I am new to Time Machine. I currently have an external 750G hard drive that I plan to use with Time Machine. My question is: Is this hard drive large enough to do a system backup? My concern is will this hard drive serve my needs for future backups. I am an average user and don't plan to back up large data files other than photos and music. Also I plan to upgrade to Snow Leopard(OS 10.6).

You might want to review these:
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Apple - Support - Mac OSX v10.5 Leopard Time Machine
and perhaps browse the Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum.
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Mouth To Mouth On This External Hard Drive

My 1st post here so hello people...
Bad stuff.. I read a thread posted in December about something related to this and i tried all the suggestions but nothings worked for me yet.. I really hope someone can help me..
I run a G5 1.8 17" i-Mac.. 10.3.9? Panther..
I bought an External Hard Drive 2 weeks ago : Formac 500Gb XTR Firewire.
I installed it a few days ago and i've been stacking it with nothing but my music archive that i had stored in various locations since... I got to 80Gb... After i had moved all the previous i-Tunes library over i killed it.
Yesterday i turned the Formac off for the 1st time... Instead of clicking eject i stupidly turned it off with the switch , then recieved a warning window but by this time it was too late.
Now when i start up, the external hard drive isn't mounted.
I've tried several things :
I downloaded a trial version of 'Drive Genius' - When i ran this and scanned for my devices the Formac didn't show.
I looked in disc utilty - Nothing is listed
I turned off for a couple of hours unplugged everything by the main power supply, including the firewire ports - Still nothing
I changed the firwire port that the Formac was connected to.
When i look in the apple menu > About this mac.. Then go into the Firewire tree - When the Formac is unplugged, nothing is listed under Firewire.. When the Formac is connected it reads Firewire - Firewire Device and underneath that it says 800Mb/Second (This is the speed that the Formac runs at)...< ? I find this strange
Now i presume that all the data is still inside the Formac, it's getting the machine to recognise the external hard drives presence.
Before this tragedy, the readout on the Formac had a green light which would flash... But now when i connect it to the power the green light comes on at a constant illumination for around 10 to 15 seconds and then nothing.
I really hope someones got some answers cos i'm climbing the walls about this serious.
Many thanks in advance.
<br>
i-Mac G5 1.8 17" 1.256Gb Mac OS X (10.3.9) G5 1.8 17"

I bought an External Hard Drive 2 weeks ago : Formac
500Gb XTR Firewire.
Yesterday i turned the Formac off for the 1st time...
Instead of clicking eject i stupidly turned it off
with the switch , then recieved a warning window but
by this time it was too late.
Now when i start up, the external hard drive isn't
mounted.
I've tried several things :
I downloaded a trial version of 'Drive Genius' - When
i ran this and scanned for my devices the Formac
didn't show.
I looked in disc utilty - Nothing is listed
I turned off for a couple of hours unplugged
everything by the main power supply, including the
firewire ports - Still nothing
I changed the firwire port that the Formac was
connected to.
When i look in the apple menu > About this mac.. Then
go into the Firewire tree - When the Formac is
unplugged, nothing is listed under Firewire.. When
the Formac is connected it reads Firewire - Firewire
Device and underneath that it says 800Mb/Second (This
is the speed that the Formac runs at)...< ? I find
this strange
Now i presume that all the data is still inside the
Formac, it's getting the machine to recognise the
external hard drives presence.
Before this tragedy, the readout on the Formac had a
green light which would flash... But now when i
connect it to the power the green light comes on at a
constant illumination for around 10 to 15 seconds and
then nothing.
I really hope someones got some answers cos i'm
climbing the walls about this serious.
Many thanks in advance.
<br>
i-Mac G5 1.8 17"
1.256Gb Mac OS X (10.3.9) G5 1.8 17"
If the drive does not show up in Disk Utility, you have a hardware problem. DiskWarrior, or any other software, will not help if the drive is not visible to the system. If the disk was formatted HFS+ Journaled (the normal for OSX), shutting off the power before ejecting should cause no problem, except for any file that was being written at the time. In any case, it would not cause the problems you are seeing. Does the manual say what the green light means?
Can you hear the drive spin when you turn on the power? If the drive does not start, sometimes a sharp twist of the case will help, but this usually is only needed for old drives.
If the drive is 800MHZ FireWire and plugged into a 800MHz port, that's the speed System Profiler will show, even though the drive cannot transfer data that fast. This does indicate that the FireWire part of the drive enclosure is working. It's possible the 12V part of the power supply has failed. The 5V part would keep the FireWire port and the indicator light working, but the 12V part is needed to spin the drive. If you are lucky, a new enclosure or power supply will fix the problem, and you will not lose any data. If the drive itself has failed, it will cost a LOT of money to recover the data.

WD External Hard Drive - Not Enough USB Power?

Hello, I have a Western Digital External Hard Drive that I've had for about 5 years. It plugs in/loads through the USB port. However, it hasn't worked when I plug it in to my MAC anymore. The red light comes on like it is getting power, but the blue light that typically comes on as well blinks a few times, then you hear the external hard drive shutting back down. Needless to say, it isn't loading anymore, and I can't access my files on the drive. I'm thinking/hoping that maybe (for some odd reason) it isn't getting enough power through my MAC's USB port anymore. Is this possible? If so, what can I do to solve this problem. Thanks for any help!

Depends on whether the drive's motor is functional and the drive can be mounted. In that case you could use recovery software if the drive isn't otherwise accessible. If it's dead and inaccessible then you would need to send it to an expensive data recovery service.
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
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First, deselect the drive as your TM backup drive, then turn off TM. Now try this:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. If you need to reformat your startup volume, then you must boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the drop down menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Be sure to re-select the drive for the TM backup drive.

All of my imovie events are stored on an external hard drive. How do I backup this external hard drive? If the external hard drive crashes, how do retrieve the imovie events?

I have all of my imovie events stored on an external hard drive in order to save space on my MacBook Pro's internal drive. I currently back up both my MacBook Pro and the external hard drive using a second external hard drive via Time Machine. I have a few questions:
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2. How do I retrieve the imovie events if the 1st external hard drive crashes?
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Let me give you some thoughts. I can tell you my plan, but ultimately you will need your own plan that makes sense for you.
I do not think that your idea of having two separate Time Machine destinations will work. You can have two external drives as Time Machine volumes, but they will both back up the same data set. You cannot dedicate one to iMovie and one to everything else. They will both have everything, so you may still have a space problem.
One way to overcome this is to back up the iMovie volume by using a tool like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. The good news is that your Event files should be pretty stable and there is no need to back them up every 15 minutes. So something like SuperDuper, which you can set to automatically backup once a day, for example, is probably fine. I am pretty sure that this would work if you kept the Projects on the same external drive. As long as Projects and Events are on the same drive, then the cloning stragy should work (but you should always test.)
Because projects change more often than events, and projects can become corrupted, I would definitely back up the Project Library to Time Machine. You can do this even though it is on an external drive. (And even though you may be periodically backing up the entire drive that contains the projects.)
Here are some thoughts on how I approach backup, copied from an earlier answer...
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Great question. I think the issue of backup is a important one, and one I always worry about since I have a lot of video footage that is irreplaceable.
For back-up, it is helpful to define the risk you are trying to protect from.
For example,
1) risk of corruption in iMovie --> I use Time Machine
2) risk of hard drive failure --> I use SuperDuper! nightly for bootable backup) and Time Machine all the time
3) Risk of theft or fire --> offsite backup
Here is what I do...
1) I back up my boot disk with SuperDuper automatically each night so I always have a bootable system.
2) I back up my original video files. For my Motion JPEG, VHS-->AIC, DV, and 8MM to DV, the EVENT is the copy I back up. (I keep the tapes, but I never want to have to import the tapes again.)
For my AVCHD high def video, I back up the camera archive of the AVCHD, but I am not currently backing up the Event files, because I would need from 4 to 8 TB to back up these events depending on whether I made one copy or two. I can always re-create the Event from the camera archive.
3) I use CrashPlan for my offsite backup. It costs less than $4 per month, and I seeded the initial backup to an external drive to minimize having to transfer video files over the Internet. I currently have over 2TB of data backed up to CrashPlan, which includes my entire boot drive, and the files described in #2.
4) All of the above is automated, so I don't have to think about it too much. If I have to manually do stuff, I tend to get behind.
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUfjt6xqG_Y
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*[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile#w_copying-files-between-profile-folders Copying files between profile folders]

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Read carefully to the end, it is not a long text.
Let us resume the required steps, after putting inside a new, virgin disk:
1. Start up machine and as soon as possible put CD/DVD, press key C to force boot from CD; if the sequence is not fast enough and machine passed over the initial phase, and ? was displayed, force shut down by pressing button key, then start again, with CD/DVD inside
2. Press key C after start, and wait until the Apple logo in displayed, wait
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Hi. I'm really in a panic right now because school starts tomorrow and a problem occurred with my external hard drive today. Before I start, I would like to clarify that I use a Macbook Pro 15" (not Retina Display). Here is what happened:
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Please give me some advice as to what I can do as soon as possible. I am willing to go to a store to fix it, but I would much rather try to do it myself at home. I transferred all my movies from my laptop to this external hard drive because I had no more space on my laptop (yes, almost 90% of the space taken up on my external hard drive is used up by movies and episodes).
Please help me. I also have school files on here (granted, they are from two years ago, but you never know when you're going to use them). I'm a HUGE movie junkie and I've downloaded so many movies that I don't even remember what I downloaded last week (I just can't keep track of which ones I've downloaded when).
This is really important to me, so I would be VERY grateful for any and all relevant and helpful tips and advice.

The problem is caused by the third-party software you installed in order to make NTFS volumes writable. Refer to the developer for support. You might be able to repair the volume in Windows using the CHKDSK program.

Using an external hard drive now my time machine is broken

Hi All,
i have an external hard drive now my time machne has overheated and failed
this works fine with time machine
Is it possible for me to backup my windows pc to this external hard drive???
thanks in advance
Jason

I guess the external drive is hanging off the Mac..
Getting access to the drive from PC should be possible.. you may need to move public directory onto the external drive and then set up permissions to do it.. I have not done it and simply would not do it.
External hdd are cheap enough buy one for the pc.. That is then formatted NTFS which windows is going to natively read.. this will be much easier if the backups are ever required than to use HFS+ formatted disk hanging off the Mac.
You can also get your dead TC fixed.
https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modem s/apple-time-capsule-repairers

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