Need a new external HD

just purchased a 17' MBpro for field work with FCP. i have an old maxtor one-touch 2 external HD, but want to upgrade. does anyone have any good suggestions for an external HD that i can use as my FCP scratch disk to free up space on my internal drive? any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks

If you end up goin with a Seagate or a LaCie Hard drive be sure you check out the recent discussions in this forum regarding "Zero Erasing" and "Formatting."
G Tech is currently backed up on arders for the 500 GB model of the G Drive Q Series... which features USB 2.0 port, both FW400 & FW800 ports as well as an eSata port...
I got a call from them two days ago (May 9th, 2007) and they said that it would be at least two weeks before they ship any of them out...
Ham

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Number Of Processors:    1
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SMC Version (system):    1.30f1
Serial Number (system):    YD8520CD0N4
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USB Bus:
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Host Controller Driver:    AppleUSBUHCI
PCI Device ID:    0x2835
PCI Revision ID:    0x0004
PCI Vendor ID:    0x8086
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Yeah, you are cornfused and quite honestly, you should really indulge in some training/teaching aides and practice before engaging in a project. But, that's up to you.
I hope you've read the release notes and for your first project, I'd advise following those notes to the letter.
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Do yourself a favor and do some testing before you go any where near your finished "film." By the way, your HVX shoots video, not film.
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When you saved these projects in Logic (Pro X?) did you save them using the include audio files option?
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NTFS (Windows NT File System)
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Maximum volume size: 8EiB
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EXFAT (FAT64)
Supported in Mac OS X only in 10.6.5 or later.
Not all Windows versions support exFAT.
exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table)
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