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Austin Walton October 1st, 2006 06:15 PM

Internal SATA Drive for Scratch Disk?
 
An Apple store employee suggested that I install an internal SATA drive as a scratch disk, instead of purchasing another external drive.

I was at the store to purchase another ext. drive. He suggested buying the SATA, and then when I start filling it up to go ahead and buy another ext. drive to move the files to.

What are some opinions on this idea? Anyone currently doing it? Brand suggestions?

I edit HDV. I capture native, and export AIC.

Thanks!

Eric Darling October 1st, 2006 11:13 PM

Any internal SATA drive will be faster than a FireWire or USB drive. It's a good recommendation. HDV runs well below the speed capacity of modern hard drives - even below most SD codecs. As far as brand preference goes, I generally like Seagates the best. The only feature you're going to lose is portability.

Austin Walton October 2nd, 2006 06:58 AM

Thank you Eric.

Brian Critchlow October 17th, 2006 01:57 PM

I would agree with Eric.
HDV is 25 mbps, Firewire is 400 or 800 mbps depending on the type, and SATA is 1.5 or 3.0 gbps depending on type.
I would highly recommend the internal drive if you have an open drive bay. It will give you the option to work with higher data rate footage in the future.

Nathan VanHoose October 18th, 2006 09:25 PM

I can't speak on the specific drive speeds but I have been using a firewire 800 drive as a scratch disk (editing HDV footage regularly) and have never had an issue.

I do export to a second internal SATA drive when I put something on a tape. So maybe you shouldn't base your decision on my experience.

Greg Boston October 19th, 2006 06:07 AM

Keep in mind you can also buy external cases now that support eSATA interface. I have my original iMac 160gb drive in one such case. You have to buy a SATA interface board for your Powermac but those are pretty cheap these days. The external case typically also offers USB2 and/or FW connectivity so you can reap the benefit of high speed data transfer on your own system while maintaining portabilty with other systems using USB2 or FW.

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