Posted by mtech on 07/13/06 17:19

Yes rAID is probably OK, some Sony digital editors used them!


Butif you doing something not professional enought, you can use SATA disc
drives, just make sure you buy with more cash memory. I prefer Maxtor and
Western Digital HDD's!


"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
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> Quasar X <Quasar@the.Sun> wrote:
>>Hard Drives... Hitachi or Seagate?
>>
>>Looking for video editing HDs... unsure which brand is more reliable...
>>Hitachi or Seagate.
>
> Hard drives are not reliable. Don't expect them to be. Buy fast drives,
> make backups, plan for drives to fail.
>
> I'll say that drives made from Seagate's east coast (formerly DEC) factory
> used to be a lot more reliable than those from Seagate's west coast
> factory. But the technology changes on a daily basis, and therefore so do
> the reliability concerns. When a given drive is only made for a few
> months
> before there is a production change, you can't even generalize the
> reliability
> of a particular model.
>
> If you have a critical system where you can't survive a drive failure
> because even the loss of a day to reload from backup is a problem, then
> get a RAID unit. And make sure the RAID unit is properly set up; I have
> seen so many folks who have RAID systems set up with no redundancy because
> they don't realize that they need it.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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