G-Tech does have a good rep these days but they are pricey. All FW drives are fragile and they all die. All brands. The infamous failed-within-a-month phenom affects a small percentage of them all - warranties and backups are important. There are still people who swear by Lacie. Generally people swear by the last drive they've tried. Until it fails, then they hate THAT brand. The only downside to a MBP for FCP Studio is slow rendering time compared to a new tower. Compared to a G5 they scream though.
Downside for After Effects is 4GB max ram. Other than that they're great. I edit HD prores on mine all the time, and even do color correction for clients (with additional outboard gear) with one. If you plan on doing a lot of work in Color (meaning the app), though, a tower is worth the bother. Brook On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:14 AM, David Terranova <da...@davidterranova.com>wrote: > I vaguely remember a similar discussion a few months ago... but I steer > clear of Lacie. 2 of mine failed and several friends have had the same > problem. > When speaking our hardware support company, they advised me to avoid them > completely, I think they¹ve actually stopped selling them because they got > so many customers sending them back. > They strongly recommend using G-tech which is considered a lot more > industrial than the home-use drives such as lacie. So I know own a G-Raid > which works perfectly with fcp on my macbook. > > -- > David Terranova > www.davidterranova.com | blog.davidterranova.com | www.rebelrave.tv > > From: Irene Duma <ir...@strangeduck.com <irene%40strangeduck.com>> > Reply-To: "videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>" > <videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>> > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:47:46 -0330 > To: <videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>> > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing > > > Cool. I think then the macbook pro will be a sweet treat as long as my G5 > will hold out. Having the 2 would be good - to speed up Quicktime > conversion. > > Oh, what size should I get. I have a 17 inch PC laptop. It¹s pretty big and > heavy and though I love the screen size, portability is lost. So many > decisions. > > I used to have good luck with Lacie harddrives but I just got a 1 > Terrabyte Porsche on sale really cheap at Futureshop and it has caused my > Mac to crash on numerous occasions. I think it blew something it¹s acting > weird. I tried to run Onyx and it said I need to repair the start up disc. > I > don¹t know how to do that, so need to call someone in because I have enough > stuff to learn and that kind of stuff scares me. I am now thinking of > upgrading to Leopard. Does that make sense. Or do I have to repair the disk > first? > > Argh. I only like computers when they work ;) > > Oh, and thanks for your reply. Will check newegg. > > > Irene > > I use a MacBook Pro for all of my editing. But I'll soon be upgrading > to a MacPro tower. My MBP is a couple of years old but still reliably > handles Final Cut Pro and my HD footage. It's not the fastest of the > bunch, but it does its job. A brand new MBP should be fine, so long as > you don't need to do much rendering or effects work. You can only > upgrade the RAM so much on the laptops, they eventually fizzle out in > terms of abilities to tackle HD, etc. after a couple years and there's > no upgrade path for them. > > The G5 should actually be enough, provided you have some good RAM in > there, for HD needs. I don't recommend any heavy duty editing on a > laptop because, like me, you'll get tied into so many external drives > and devices that being mobile is the furthest thing from your mind. :) > > I've had good luck with Lacie external drives -- knock on wood. I have > four so far and they are all running great. Price and performance > tends to be good for them. There are some other more expensive models > that have more solid track records. Check out Newegg.com and list > models by rating and read some customer reviews. Good luck! > > Dom > http://blog.gadzookfilms.com > http://twitter.com/gadzook > http://store.gadzookfilms.com > > . > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
