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External Hard Drive confusion

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dylanpipe
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On my MBP I have only like 88 GB free of memory and Im going to be filming here real soon. So I am in need of a external so I can move all of my FCPX crap onto an external. But I've been reading and it seems like a pain in the ass to move footage and project&events seamlessly. First of all I have about 280GB of footage( raw and edits) on my hard drive. So a 1 TB hard drive would be ample room correct? Any brands to especially avoid? So, how exactly would I move basically everything already on FCPX onto a hard drive.


And, if I wanted to keep my hard drive semi empty and this year put all my footage on the external also and edited off that, is that easy?
Nov 26 2013 5:02PM
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1337
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What connections does your MBP have? FW800/USB2/USB3/Thunderbolt/etc
Nov 26 2013 5:42PM
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eheath
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Answer this for sure, but I recommend OWC

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB

or

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ministack

or if you want bus powered

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB

Definitely get 1tb or 2tb. It's worth going 2tb if you can afford it (only $50 more for 1tb more while a 1tb is $150) and always try to get 7200rpm too (bus powered 7200 is expensive, but for the other two drives theyre 7200 standard)
Nov 26 2013 5:53PM
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dylanpipe
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  • MagSafe power port
  • Gigabit Ethernet port
  • FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps)
  • Two USB 3 ports (up to 5 Gbps)
  • Thunderbolt port (up to 10 Gbps)
  • Headphone port
  • SDXC card slot
  • Kensington lock slot
  • 8x SuperDrive
Nov 26 2013 6:01PM
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eheath
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buy this, 2tb external

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ME3QH7T2.0/

or this 1tb bus powered

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ME6UM7T10G16/

The first one is nice cause its a good price and 2tb @7200rpm, but you need a power source. The second one is nice because you don't need a power source you just plug it into your computer, but its only 1tb @7200rpm.

hope that helps
Nov 26 2013 9:07PM
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NickVentura
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this.

Have had it for almost a year now and it works flawlessly and with USB 3.0 its super fast
Nov 26 2013 9:10PM
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