External Hard Drive questions

[zyr123]

I have 2 750 gb WD My Passports.

One of them broke my mom never sent it back, charged 120 $ but... IT STARTED WORKING AGAIN.

Now I have a half tb worth of memory.

Any suggestions on what to do with them. Besides the normal backing up and etc?

Is this hard drive fast enough to be a scratch disk for video editing?

thanks

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Depending on what kind of video you edit (HD or SD, highly compressed or properly transcoded), it might be, as USB is a bit slow for HD video using a proper editing codec.

And since it already failed to startup and now is working again, it might not be a good choice to use it for backup, unless you double backup.

I have one 500 GB HDD for my photographs (digital and analog) libraries and editing documents, one 500 GB HDD with my personal video footage in an editing friendly format.
Both 500 GB HDDs get backed up to one 1 TB HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
And that 1 TB HDD gets backed up to another 1 TB HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
Therefore I have three copies of my important data.

 

[zyr123]

response

Your propably right its not worth it using a hard drive that may die for both of those tasks.