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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Best hard drives for Location Data Wrangling

Also found this:

Abusive Lab Test Results
* Western Digital My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive
$130 /// Died after a 5-ft. drop onto industrial carpet.

* Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive
$110 /// Died after a 9.5-ft. drop onto industrial carpet.

* LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive
$200 /// Died only after a 15-ft. drop onto concrete.

* Iomega eGo Rugged
$117 /// Survived a 15 ft. drop on concrete and the crushing weight of a Chevy Tahoe.


Read more: Portable Hard Drive Reviews - Video Rugged External Hard Drives - Popular Mechanics:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tests/4275478
 
Enrique thats great !!!! I would never have thought of even looking there!

Personally with every "in the field" shoot I have it backed up to the desktop of the lappy, then distributed to 2 other external HD's . Maybe that's me being paranoid, I just prefer the safety in numbers approach.
 
Enrique

I always find the G-Tech drives the best and mist reliable at the moment.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TX538VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw

I always go for the 2TB to storage footage for clients and normally do a second backup on another of the same.

1 for backup, 1 for editorial and then there is a 3rd backup sitting on a RAID 5 somewhere as the master copy.

For larger productions, an LTO5 (or LTO4 at the worst) if the budget stretches for long term copies.

Personally, I don't like keeping a copy on a laptop as it will fill up quickly, especially a 750GB internal drive. Depends on what your shooting and how many SSD cards your going through, how often you can offload them. Remember that if you've no electricity, then offloading the SSD cards will take longer via USB2 or FW800 that say via eSATA.

Just my personal view. Hope it helps.

:))
 
this is my life.....in the field, backup to Hitachi 3TB 7200rpm 64mb cache drives....minimum 2 backups and use a hot swap reader in the field that is triple reader...from USB up to FW800 and Esata. all from laptop to HDD's and end of day shooting. And i usually bring 2 of everything AND a Voltage Regulator. Just got back from Ecuador on a boat where the genset FRIED--actually almost started a fire of my Voltage Regulator....none of my drives or gear connected fried. BUT, others that were plugged into the outlets lost cell phones and other equipment. So....always important in my opinion---and not a surge protector....i've toasted gear that was connected to a surge protector....oh, this is a HDD discussion--sorry.
 
Steve Johnson said:
Enrique

I always find the G-Tech drives the best and mist reliable at the moment.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TX538VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw

I always go for the 2TB to storage footage for clients and normally do a second backup on another of the same.

1 for backup, 1 for editorial and then there is a 3rd backup sitting on a RAID 5 somewhere as the master copy.

For larger productions, an LTO5 (or LTO4 at the worst) if the budget stretches for long term copies.

Personally, I don't like keeping a copy on a laptop as it will fill up quickly, especially a 750GB internal drive. Depends on what your shooting and how many SSD cards your going through, how often you can offload them. Remember that if you've no electricity, then offloading the SSD cards will take longer via USB2 or FW800 that say via eSATA.

Just my personal view. Hope it helps.

:))
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Just a quick note that particular drive says:
"Power Source: External power supply"

I guess you missed that Enrique is looking for drives in a "No power environment" to be powered by the laptop.

My best recommendation is the
LaCie rugged series, I used them for a while, powered through Fw800 cable, works every time for me.
 
Eirik Tyrihjel said:
Just a quick note that particular drive says:
"Power Source: External power supply"

I guess you missed that Enrique is looking for drives in a "No power environment" to be powered by the laptop.

My best recommendation is the
LaCie rugged series, I used them for a while, powered through Fw800 cable, works every time for me.
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Ooopppsss. Thanks Eirik

Guess its time to change the contact lenses!!! :))
 
Chris Parker said:
i'm with steve. i like GRAID a lot. or in this case....G-mini.
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I blame you Chris, since your the one that suggested I go with them back at REDucation 003!!!

But never failed me, so yeah GTECH are my workhorse.

:))
 
Johnny Friday said:
Ah...self powered from Notebook---i use these under those circumstances:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MS8U5T1GB8/ 1TB FW800 @ 5400rpm

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MS8U7750GB16/ 750GB FW800 @ 7200rpm
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These are great, the only downside being they only go up to 1TB. I have two that haven't failed me yet, and bus-powered rules.

I'd like to stress here, the rpm is irrelevant -- FW 800 is the bottleneck. Go for the 5400.
 
Steve Johnson said:
Enrique

I always find the G-Tech drives the best and mist reliable at the moment.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TX538VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw

I always go for the 2TB to storage footage for clients and normally do a second backup on another of the same.

1 for backup, 1 for editorial and then there is a 3rd backup sitting on a RAID 5 somewhere as the master copy.

For larger productions, an LTO5 (or LTO4 at the worst) if the budget stretches for long term copies.

Personally, I don't like keeping a copy on a laptop as it will fill up quickly, especially a 750GB internal drive. Depends on what your shooting and how many SSD cards your going through, how often you can offload them. Remember that if you've no electricity, then offloading the SSD cards will take longer via USB2 or FW800 that say via eSATA.

Just my personal view. Hope it helps.

:))
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I second this. We prefer esata connectivity for speed.
 
Don't forget that with RAID 1, it's mirrored, so it's 750 gb total, not 1.5 tb. But if one drive goes, you're still good. But also, if the RAID controller goes, you might be hosed. It wouldn't be a bad idea to buy two and do a test. Load up files on one, and then shut them both off, and put the drives from that one into the other one. If it boots fine and you can still see your data, then you know it's not a big deal if the controller breaks.
 
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