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External hard drive for frame memories

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Thu, 12/04/2008 - 17:08
MSanta
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Joined: 14 Mar 2006

Hey guys,

I was curious bout hooking up an external hard drive to store frame memories.. Can you use any harddrive or does it have to come specifically from sony? I noticed a firewire port in the back of the brains of the switcher that I think i can connect it to.

Besides more room, does the external drive make loading on and saving frame memories Faster?

Thanks all, if any knows anything id appreciate..

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Fri, 12/05/2008 - 17:22
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Joe Kern
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Hi, We are using the LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive eSATA 1.5 Gbits Firewire 400/800 USB 2.0 750GB hard drive. This is recommended by Sony. We bought the 750 GB model only to find out the size of the hard drive does not matter. Save some money, you only need the 320 GB. You do not gain any more storage with the larger drive. Loading speed is noticeably faster. What took 20-30 min now takes 10 minutes and that is not a full load of memory. When you hook up the hard drive go to page 2562.(frame Memory HDD). Then format the drive which will divide the drive into 5 partitions. This means you only get 5 different save files. You also can only save or load the entire file not one at a time like you can with the switcher hard drive. It definitely is a worthwhile investment......enjoy.. Joe
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Fri, 12/05/2008 - 07:38
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oterbor
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Hi, I'm using the following model and it works beautifully. Lacie d2 Quadra Hard Drive eSATA 1.5Gbits, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 750GB model. Regards,
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Thu, 12/04/2008 - 20:24
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Bill D
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Lacie is recommended now I think, if you do a search there is more info in a thread. That is the biggest advantage (faster save and load times). Can do 1000 plus HD stills in about half hour
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