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I have been to Avid and posted there with not much help other than to be told I need to get a fire wire external hard drive. The issue is I cannot record to the USB 2.0 1 TB external hard drive I have now. I can save to it but can use it to record to. I have to use the internal hard drive and designate it as the record hard drive. I am just checking here before going out and forking out $150.00 to $200.00 for either a 500GB or 1 TB, respectively, external hard drive with fire wire.

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pmolsonmus Sat, 12/11/2010 - 04:08

I go from a laptop to an external hard drive via firewire 800 and then from the hard drive to My OO3r via FW400. Everything plays nicely.

I don't think Digi recommends USB via the 002 (don't quote me) It may be possible, but I think you'd have drop out problems. You also probably don't need that large of an external hard drive, but if you're buying new stick to Digi's specs. I've got a rackmounted Glyph that doesn't blink.

Phil

strings1 Sat, 12/11/2010 - 09:12

Thanks Jack. I was trying to rationalize the need to spend that kinda of cash when you can get 2TB for less. I should have probably said that in the first post as well. I appreciate all of the input and found some other threads here that helped me understand the reason for the fire wire verses USB. I am wondering now with USB 3.0 coming out and having a greater capacity to transfer data if the industry will change to that.

Again thanks for all of the helpful input.:biggrin:

TheJackAttack Sat, 12/11/2010 - 10:13

In my home rack I have a GT050Q (Storage) and a GT051 chained together. In my mobile location rack I have a GT051. The 051 allows easy transfer of files/audio from the location rack to the house rack via the key drives. If you don't transfer between computers then obviously any of the 050Q series or the Portagig series will be rockin just fine.

The Glyph will only come with 7200 Seagate HDD. They don't do an SSD option. If you really want the schizzle though, Glyph does a RAID drive box that is nice (062 maybe?). I don't use it as I find the normal version perfectly adequate. You could bust open a Glyph box and put an SSD in but I don't know that there is an advantage to that unless you're in a very high vibrational environment. In which case don't put any more quarters in the bed........

dvdhawk Sat, 12/11/2010 - 10:41

In my home rack I have a Glyph GT050Q - for regular archiving, and a GT062E RAID used for audio and video production - set up with simple RAID 1 redundancy, and a portable Glyph Companion to transfer big projects to and from the laptop.

And there's a Glyph Project-X hooked up to the old computer.

I also have 2 x G-RAID (brandname) external drives (one has been trouble-free, the other has burned me twice with total failure and complete data loss).

I won't buy any more drives that aren't made by Glyph. They're well worth a little extra.

TheJackAttack Sat, 12/11/2010 - 10:41

Of course, this is OS and interface specific as Digi actually recommends the opposite in other circumstances. Also Digi was not known for wanting particularly to make things work once they found a good combination of components. The user forums can attest to that.

At any rate, firewire is definitely better in general application for most computer/interface combinations barring specific manufacturer recommendations to the contrary. eSATA still reigns king of the hill however.

strings1 Sat, 12/11/2010 - 11:10

So it looks like i can get one of these at GC. Interesting thing is the 1TB is only $8 more than the 500GB. $225.00 and $219.00 respectively. At SamAsh the 500GB is only $179 with the 1TB selling for $225.00 Specs are the same from what I can tell. Since I live in a rural area so I will see about shipping etc..

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