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DV Storage on B&W G3
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I am looking for a huge storage solution for storing and editing DV. First, the equipment:
Rev 1 B&W G3 400 Yosemite, 256M Ram, 6 gig ATA
Currently have Iomega Buz PCI card w/SCSI
Canon Elura w/Firewire
Have read so much about storage options, i am hopelessly confused. The main points of what i have read are that ATA drive is fast enough, but 2 of them in my machine will cause a bus bottleneck that will render either or both essentially useless for DV. That there are corruption and data loss problems with adding any drive to a Rev 1 Yosemite. That a combination of SCSI and ATA will cause problems. That Firewire is expensive and not necessarily viable.
Have planned to pull the Buz and get rid of it, but could keep it as a cheap SCSI option, if that is the best way to go.
My latest notion is to install a new megaGig 7200RPM ATA drive to replace the original. But i hate to waste the 6 gig drive i already have. Would there be a bottleneck problem if i used the 6 gig drive for data storage only, so that it would not be accessed except at my command?
Any and all thoughts on this would earn my admiration and appreciation.......possibly even chocolate chip cookies! Thanks.
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Leave the internal drive where it is. Install a second IDE drive in the Zip drive bay and attach it as a slave drive to the CD/DVD drive. It will operate in ATA/3 mode there, but even that is sufficient for DV capture.
We've been using this setup flawlessly with Final Cut Pro on a B&W G3/350. The second drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax 61GB formatted with Apple's Drive Setup. Our current project uses 50 GB of captured video and a finished movie length of 55 minutes. No problems at all.
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By the way, I forgot to mention that the G3 is a rev. 1 like yours.
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BLESS YOU!!! I have searched and struggled and learned far more than i ever wanted to know about HD's. Finding that coherent and workable solution is an oasis to my muddled mind. Am working on digitizing chocolate chip cookies..... Thank you!
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Ohhhh..... i have a Zip drive in my Zip drive bay. But, i assume i could juggle drives and set up the Zip as slave on the 6gig bus, and work the other on the DVD ROM bus.
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Hmm... the Zip complicates things. The problem with your idea is that you'd no longer have convenient access to the Zip. You would also need a new ribbon cable for the main bus. Besides, slave support on the main bus is very spotty. I don't think it would work reliably or maybe even at all.
It seems to me that you have only a couple of good choices: Forget the Zip (or at least resign yourself to physically swapping it with the 2nd hard drive when necessary) and setting the drives up as I suggested or purchasing a PCI IDE adapter card along with the new hard disk.
In your situation, I would be tempted to do the latter. It will provide you with excellent performance and great expandibility. It will also allow the 2nd hard drive to act as an alternate startup disk, unlike my original suggestion. (That's the one disadvantage of our setup.)
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Once again, thank you. Will start shopping for a controller card, and a big ol' comfy overstuffed HD.
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