Jeremy Drake Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Including esata card and harddrive. Is esata really worth it? Or should I just go for a firewire 800? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Richman Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Including esata card and harddrive. Is esata really worth it? Or should I just go for a firewire 800? This depends what you're doing. I have a 15" 2.6ghz MBP w/4gb RAM and recently cut a piece shot on HD, 720p, and all of the source footage was copied to a 10-drive RAID with eSATA. After much research I purchased the Sonnet Tempo eSATA Express 34 card. I never experienced any problems with this configuration and performed especially well in Final Cut. It adds two ports which can use up to a 10-drive RAID, it was then the best on the market for about $100+. This ~6 months ago. Since then, all of the external drives I've built (I buy my hard drives and build into enclosures so I can choose exactly what drive I'm using - usually either Hitachi or Seagate enterprise quality drives) have ports to eSATA when I'm cutting HD+ for the speed benefits and Firewire 800 for all other uses. Hope this helps. Best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Drake Posted May 9, 2008 Author Share Posted May 9, 2008 Can you point out any good tutorials on how to build an external hd and what websites provide some quality enclosures and hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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