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Feb 20, 2016 1:44 PM in response to Tom Wolskyby marcsoucie,So a better external drive will not improve the speed of my work ?
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Feb 20, 2016 10:54 PM in response to marcsoucieby Alchroma,Can you tell us exactly what type of external you currently have in use?
eg. USB 2, Firewire 400, Thunderbolt Raid 0.
Al
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Feb 21, 2016 4:50 AM in response to marcsoucieby Russ H,What Al said. The limiting factor will be the physical connection between the Mac and the storage device. Need more details.
Russ
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Feb 21, 2016 6:27 AM in response to marcsoucieby Karsten Schlüter,marcsoucie wrote:
My FCPX is slow. I am editing 1080P footage stored on WD "My Book" drives. …
Some WD drives allow 'on the fly encryption' - be sure, if optional, to switch that off for video-editing.
usb3 has in theory ~600mbps - so, any single mechanical storage doesn't come close to that. To max out this connection, you have to staple harddrives as Raid, preferable Raid5.
or, super-fast, ext. SSD: in use here a tiny (matchbox size) Samsung SDD as 'working horse' (when project done, all files get transferred to some other drive), 250GB ~130€., awesome, Multicam done easy....
thunderbold for single HDD/SSD is imho nonsense; tb connected Raids are really fun but $$$$ league.
Depends on your needs and format of material ...