I have been searching the forums and can't seem to get a good answer for a fast, quality external to store video files with. 500gb Time Capsule is the same price as a 1tb raid Western Digital Mybook? Any suggestions?
thanks for that list hatter, ill look into all of those options definitely.
yeah its a little goofy with formatting, i might turn on my old PC and formate the drive directly from that to NTFS with XP.
I might try to get a new case before the Replacement drive comes and try to format that one for NTFS in XP directly. Leopard worked fine but the drive just crapped out unfortunately.
if nothing else and spending over 529$ for a raid set up might just look into a Drobo
http://www.drobo.com/
I just used the XP installation as normal on my Mac pro to format the Hard disk in NTFS and had no problems. The only thing that different to what was described under BootCamp Guide was the options givento choose the windows drive. there was no mention of bootcamp in the drive options, so I chose the last Drive option marked "C" and Windows XP formatted the disk as per usual and installed XP. Not yet tried Vista so can't comment on procedure for drive formatting with it.
I think Newegg got a bad batch of eggs that broke on the way, or are we seeing OEM drives that aren't working in a number of PC motherboards? 😉
AMUG = our friend and helper 'mbean' and the Ariz, mostly I was hoping you would just do a "www" + AMUG + "com" or let your browser do it for you.
My head hurts and spins and the first time I shelled out $325 for a SCSI card from 'Gurus - only THEY were trying to push Ultra2, not Ultra160, glad I followed my gut instinct. So I know how much it hurts. Wallet part too.
"SCSI on the cheap" is an oxymoron. Buyers regret/remorse anyone?
The $199 Seritek case is cadillac or jaq and good for anything you throw at it. I know people with four cases, who didn't go PM, just direct connect. Keeps your drives quiet and/or cool while you pound on 'em hour after hour of editing or for whatever use.
Some point, pick up a case, a couple 500GB drives, hook up to the ODD or a 2-channel card is always handy. About $325 for that. Good 933GB learning experience to play with RAID or something for backups and files.
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As for AMUG, I'm still researching which one you mean.
And now for the drum role...Arizona Macintosh Users Group wins the prize. See what a little patience and research can produce. (Thank goodness for that Barefeets link and Hatter's patience with us newbies.)
It seems HighPoint/RocketRaid products are among the most costly. Does their reputation and quality standard justify the cost? If budget weren't a concern among tech gurus, would each have a RocketRaid SATA Controller Card installed in their MacPro?
