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How big of an external drive do I need?
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MacB
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May 3, 2004, 08:38 PM
 
I am going to film a documentary soon and I know my 80 gig HD in my powerbook is not going to do it, so I am wondering what size should I get in an external drive? Is 120 gig enough or will it be lacking?
     
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May 3, 2004, 09:06 PM
 
obviously, the biggest you can afford, the better. how long is the film going to be? how much shooting to you plan on doing?
     
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May 3, 2004, 09:06 PM
 
I'm not a video expert by any means, but how long is your documentary going to be?
1 hour of DV is about 13gigs I believe? So I would go from there, depending on how much footage you're planning on shooting.

Either way, the more storage the better - imho, you can't ever have enough.
     
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May 4, 2004, 07:24 AM
 
I bought a 160GB external drive-7200rpm, Firwire 400.
If I should need more space IŽd buy another one and just build a stack.
With two external drives you can put the raw footage on one drive and save finished projects onto the other one.
Or you buy a monster drive and partition it so you have different virtual drives.
BTW: which camera do you use?
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