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I am looking for recommendations on an internal hard drive for music, video clips, and still images. This is for personal, home use. I have a Dual 533 G4 and with a recent purchase of a video cam and being in the process of converting our music collection, I am quickly running out of space. I was thinking of Seagate's barracuda 80 gb ATA 100 and devoting it to multimedia storage. Any thoughts? I am trying to estimate if this should be enough room for now and it seems like it but I am new to video so I am not sure. I should also say that about $250 is about all that I can spend right now.
Thanks for any input
fishguy
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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It depends of course on how much you want to put on it, how much music and video you want to store. But I think it should be possible to have enough with that amount of Gbs. It depends on the question if you want to delete the things you don't use often.
Give the maxtor drives a thought, I recently purchased a 40Gb disk from them...the thing rules, I didn't know hard drives could be that quiet!
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Just remember that 5 minutes of DVD video takes up 1 GB of hard drive space. 
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Check out www.storagereview.com for drive reviews.
80 GB should be plenty for working with digital video (I have a 60 GB and, while more would be nice, it's plenty big enough to be productive). If you're just downloading and storing mpg/avi clips, 80 GB is more than enough.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I've heard good things about the barracuda.
I went for IBMs GXP. Works great for a media drive.
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I think any modern drive will do nicely; the Deskstar (60GXP) is supposedly the fastest, but not by enough to matter. It can't compare in size to some others (for the same price).
Get the biggest 7200 name-brand drive you can, quite simply. Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, Western Digital...
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I just installed an IBM 7200 80GB that I got dirt cheap through a friend of mine (don't we all have one  ). It serves as both storage and video drive for my FCP projects, mp3 server & download repository. Works like a charm
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Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
<STRONG>I just installed an IBM 7200 80GB that I got dirt cheap through a friend of mine (don't we all have one ). It serves as both storage and video drive for my FCP projects, mp3 server & download repository. Works like a charm </STRONG>
an 80 gig drive?? That's not a 60GXP is it? I thought its max size was 60 gig... did they release a new one with larger/more platters?
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