From: George Monteleone (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2008 - 08:04:31 PST
ESata drives are your bet for data rate. You'll have to buy an adapter card
but they aren't too expensive. For uncompressed or Apple Prores encodings
at full HD (1920x1080) you may need eSata to avoid dropped frames. Western
Digital makes pretty cheap ones: "my book." Check ebay. Get a 7200 rpm
drive if you can. Many external drives are 5400 rpm, especially the cheaper
ones.
Failing that, you can try for firewire 800, the next fastest. I don't know
any specific drives.
If you're encoding using DVCpro another more compressed codec, or resolution
is 720, you may be ok with usb 2.0 or standard firewire 400. Hell, it might
even work for Prores 1080 but I'd try it out. WD and Iomega sell very
cheap, small usb 2.0 drives: "my passport" and "prestige", respectively.
under 100 for 250GB, typically. Not sure about reliability on these,
though.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Flores-Gutiérrez, Beatriz <
email suppressed> wrote:
> I TB drive works well for film/video, but if you've got some blue-ray
> technology, that's also a possibility.
> peace,
> Beatriz
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Experimental Film Discussion List on behalf of Michael Sheridan
> Sent: Mon 11/10/2008 6:51 AM
> To: email suppressed
> Subject: Re: Portable harddrive recommendations?
>
> I have had good luck with the drives from OWC. You can google them.
> Best, Michael
>
>
> On 11/9/08 9:13 PM, "Robert Schaller" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > This may be a non-frameworks question, and if so, I apologize, but as it
> > concerns screening I'll ask the list:
> >
> > As has been suggested here, I have found that playing a quicktime file
> from
> > a computer is the easiest way to get HD projection. I would like to get a
> > portable bus-powered firewire drive to be able to transport and play
> large
> > movie files from my (Powerbook) laptop. Does anyone have any caveats or
> > recommendations? Amazon has a 120GB Aegis 2.5" Portable drive which
> seems
> > to fit the bill for $82.68 which seems cheap...
> >
> > Any thoughts would be appreciated!
> >
> > Robert Schaller (who actually works mostly with film...)
> > www.robertschaller.org
> > www.handmadefilm.org
> >
> >
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