Hard Drive for MacBookPro
by Frank Cervarich
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Jul 16, 2008 at 4:17:10 pm
My son has just bought a MacBookPro. He will use it for school work at college and also is planning on buying FCP2. I told him to hold off on buying an external hard drive until I check around. I have heard that G-Tech and Cal Dig are top brands. Would you recommend them? Also, what kind of drive should he get? There are so many different types and he will probably mix media files with class files (however, I guess he could put the class files on his internal hard drive.) Thanks for all your help.
Re: Hard Drive for MacBookPro by Sara Iyer on Jul 16, 2008 at 6:30:35 pm
As the previous poster mentioned, OWC is good, I haven't owned one but every professional project or professional company I've worked for has used OWC with good results. I've had good luck with Maxtor brand drives. I've had a 200 GB for years with no problems, and just recently bought a 750 GB for only $150 -- they seem to be pretty affordable. Not to say you should base your purchase on price, but like I said, they seem to be quality drives as well as being affordable. I would stay away from LaCie -- just heard too many bad things about them crashing.
As for what kind of drive to get, USB vs. Firewire, etc. I would recommend Firewire for FCP stuff. My original Maxtor was a USB and it wasn't terribly slow, but FW is a little faster and it's always nice to have the top of the line when you buy a drive. Keep in mind that the 15in Macbook Pro only has one Firewire 400 port (at least mine does -- dont know if they changed that) so if you get a drive with only Firewire 400, as I did, you won't have a port for plugging in a FW deck or camera or anything else at the same time unless you get a FW hub. Just something to keep in mind. I believe the 17in Macbook Pro has at least 2 400 ports.
Re: Hard Drive for MacBookPro by bruno silva on Jul 17, 2008 at 3:40:04 pm
We have a few G-RAID drives here at the office. Thats what we trust most with client footage. We don't use Maxtor so much, only for in house stuff now. Stick to G-RAID and use Firewire, but its a bit expensive.
