Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hard drives & local storage question

2006-04-13 Thread Nathan Miller
Over a 1TB of logged and captured footage since I started in July of 2005. About 300 GB of videos/mine/and the videobloggin communities..I have packed away... And a bunch of rendered stuff that FCP pumps out... I need to do some house cleaning... As for hardware...a few 250GB USB 2.0 drives (they

[videoblogging] Re: Hard drives & local storage question

2006-04-13 Thread Bill Streeter
I like to use Fireant which downloads videos. I like it because playback is quicker when playing from my local drive. Also Fireant has a feature that allows you to set a maximum amount of disk space that you want the downloaded media to take up (once the max is reached it starts to delete the oldes

[videoblogging] Re: Hard drives & local storage question

2006-04-13 Thread Bill Streeter
You know Fireant lets you control how much drive space it uses. I have mine set to one gig. I currently have one 250 gig firewire drive which is about 80% full. A 200 gig USB 2.0 drive that is 50% full, a 160 gig internal SATA drive that is 80% full and network (gigabit ethernet) 300 gig drive wh

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hard drives & local storage question

2006-04-13 Thread robert a/k/a r
Same here, viewing in the browser is my preferred experience. I like seeing the video in the context of peeps sites and the text of the entry. And as Andreas stated, when the browser closed the cache is cleared and disk space is recovered. I can't see any reason why one would want to archive c

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hard drives & local storage question

2006-04-13 Thread Harold Johnson
I've yet to work out the best solution to this.  When you're downloading video, hard drive space fills up *quick*!  Someday (soon), we'll each have inexpensive terabyte + drives, and storage may not seem much of a problem.  But today, most folks can most likely afford anything from 40GB on up to

[videoblogging] Re: Hard drives & local storage question

2006-04-13 Thread David Howell
I was using Fireant but stopped because the last time I used it, it downloaded the videos and I dont want my drive space to be taken up. As a result, I'm just using my browser too to watch videos now. I have a couple larger external firewire drives that hold my media. They are rather full right no