640GB RED Drive.

[Harva Raj]

From Engadget:http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/25/owc-intros-7-200-rpm-320gb-mercury-on-the-go-bus-powered-drive/

OWC intros 7,200RPM 320GB Mercury On-The-Go bus-powered drive.

It's not the biggest portable hard drive OWC has to offer, but if speed is your top concern, you can now get a still impressive 320GB model from the company, which will spin at an always-desirable 7,200 rpm without the need for a pesky AC adapter. As with OWC's other Mercury-on-The-Go drives, you can also get this one in your choice of FireWire 800/400 + USB 2.0 Triple, FireWire 400 + USB 2.0 Combo, USB 2.0 + eSATA, or plain old USB 2.0 versions, each of which include a handy carrying case and the requisite backup software (for both Mac and Windows), and will set you back $280, $260, $258, and $240, respectively.




is it possible to put 2 of these drives in raid 0 on to RED Drive. it's certainly fast enough.

 

[david farland]

Forget the cases, firewire, usb, esata comms etc....throw that all away and you're left with two bare bones drives and whether they'll work in a Reddrive assembly.
Red have said they tweek the drive firmware. I heard guys have replace the drives with others and they work okay.
Reliability is another question.
Personally I think it's stupid to put a couple of $100 untested (1,000's of hours) drives in professional camera for no real advantage.
Now a couple of SLC high capacity flash cards....now you're talking!
D

 

[Obin Olson]

The red drives *may* have firmware tweaks - I don't think so, more likley they have been connected to a PC and set in the proper "mode" for speed. I am sure any fast drives will work as they ARE standard hard disks inside.

advantage is space, and if you can afford to test it, SSD disks

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-320GB-Lapto...yZ158854QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Deanan]

They do have firmware tweaks to perform properly with the camera/drive combination.