Guest diggity Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 ok peoples. i need a little help. im wanting to assemble at least 100 GB external firewire drive for editing video so it needs to be atleast 7200 rpms. i've check pricewatch for the hard drive, but my question to you peoples is this. since im making an external, i know i need to buy the case, how much else is there? is it hard to hook up? the drive i found is a western digital with a 3 year warrenty,8 meg cache, 8.9 seek time. who makes the best HD's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 I'm just curious to why you are getting an external? Won't fit inside? Don't want to install brackets inside? I'm not too familiar with external ones. I'm thinking about getting an 80 gig one for like 125.00$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASER1NE Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 80 fucking gigs , i thought mine was large at 20 holy crap this tech just keep multiplying faster nad faster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diggity Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 pistol: well its like this. i cant capture video at home. i have to do that at school with the deck they have. i've got footage on high8, dv cam, minidv, and as ghetto as VHS, but in order to back those files up, and not break them into 700megs files, i need more space. that along with, i work on different computers, i dont have time to load 10 cds and wait for it to copy. firewire copies much faster. so theres my reasoning. you may want to check pricewatch. i dont know if the one you are looking at is 5400 or 7200, but i found 1 7200 for a few bucks cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sectorTVA Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 what ever you do stay away from MAXTOR's.....they suck balls...the one i had would always fuck up on boot....i took it apart one day and there was a shread of paper on the plater...thats right....a shread of fucking paper...i was pissed...so far, the most reliable drives that i have bought and used are Quantums and Western Digitals.....dont go for no slow ass 5000rpm....shell out the extra 50 or 60 bucks and get the 7200 like you are planning......ive never set up an external, and i have very little experence with firewire, so i cant really help you much....the big thing is, DONT BUY A MAXTOR!!!!.......okay....good luck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diggity Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 thanks for the look out on the maxtor. i hadnt planned on getting it based on the fact i hadnt ever heard of them. sucks about the paper. 7200 is cool but if i could only jump on one of those 10ks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swif1 Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 i have a 40 gig hd and yet somehow managed to have only 19 gigz available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DISCO BRYSO Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 fujitsu makes a pretty dependable drive for the price, you can usually get those fairly cheap, but for overall quality go with the seagate. as pointed out, Maxtor bites the big one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diggity Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 with that said. does anyone know how to install it into the case? what is needed and whatnot. dico, how is western digital? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest whoami Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 ...... it makes you think arent we spoiled with all this crap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diggity Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 bump for the techno weenies that havent seen this yet. school this brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 me a weenie?? your best bet is a massive firewire drive. I take it your using ofline (or dv) compressed video right? If so you dont need a blazing fast drive. Better to tailor to you needs. I'd like to reccomend a fiber channel jbod set-up, but they're stupid expensive. like mine... drool here this might be good for you. and swif1.. it's probably a bios issue. time to upgrade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 check out http://www.outpost.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Tesseract Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 I dont really know much..and i dont have the slightlest clue on what Zesto is saying. However if someone knows that shit in here Zesto is the man. So to add the only info i got for you...Western digital makes VERY good HD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diggity Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 lil too rich for my blood there zesto. ever assemble one of those like im talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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