So why would I spend more on a RAID system - I'm thinking of getting a terrabyte external drive of some sort and with doing a ton of animation and video I want to get something that's going to give me the least headaches.
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Mr. Anderson said:So why would I spend more on a RAID system - I'm thinking of getting a terrabyte external drive of some sort and with doing a ton of animation and video I want to get something that's going to give me the least headaches.
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Counterfit said:Keep in mind that if one drive in a mirrored RAID setup dies, all your data is GONE.
LethalWolfe said:What kind of video are you going to be working with? If you are working with DV or HDV you could RAID for backup, but you wouldn't need to RAID for speed.
skimaxpower said:If you're thinking of this drive for long term backup, its definitely worth it to use FCP's "Media Manager" utility. It lets you backup a finished project in full quality, but deletes all the extra video / spare takes that you didn't use.
There's lots of nifty options (like leaving 5 second handles in case you wanna extend scenes or add transitions later.) Read up on it in the manual. Lots of info.
NOTE: Media manager requires two hard drives. A source drive and a destination drive. But, I'm pretty sure these can also be two different partitions of the same drive.
skimaxpower said:If you're thinking of this drive for long term backup, its definitely worth it to use FCP's "Media Manager" utility. It lets you backup a finished project in full quality, but deletes all the extra video / spare takes that you didn't use.
Mr. Anderson said:So why would I spend more on a RAID system - I'm thinking of getting a terrabyte external drive of some sort and with doing a ton of animation and video I want to get something that's going to give me the least headaches.
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Mr. Anderson said:So why would I spend more on a RAID system - I'm thinking of getting a terrabyte external drive of some sort and with doing a ton of animation and video I want to get something that's going to give me the least headaches.
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superwoman said:RAID 1 would in fact be your best bet for data backup. It is _very_ unlikely for both HDD to fail at the same time at the same spot..
Mr. Anderson said:So why would I spend more on a RAID system - I'm thinking of getting a terrabyte external drive of some sort and with doing a ton of animation and video I want to get something that's going to give me the least headaches.