From: Steven Ball (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2008 - 14:34:46 PST
I use the LaCie Rugged: very portable, 7200rpm, firewire 800 etc, bus-
powered and robust:
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10821
been around the world, never failed, recommended
Steven
On 10 Nov 2008, at 16:04, George Monteleone wrote:
> 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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