Hi
I'm looking around for an external storage solution to go with an iMac. I'm sure the 500GB HD will run out pretty soon, but i don't want to have 3 external hard drives on my desk taking up all my usb ports.
I need a solution that allows me to read and write to the drives as quickly as possible as i want to use one of the drives as a video editing scratch disk.
I'm not sure how NAS works exactly, but it'll just be me using the drives (a network of one person!) I have a gigabit ethernet port on the iMac that is not being used, i use Wifi for the internet, and i'll use the USB/FW ports for other things.
I'd like a 2 drive enclosure i think, one for a 320GB scratch and another for a 750GB file store - movies/edited footage/music/files/more files!
Am i asking for the impossible?
Is the ethernet port a fast enough interface for a scratch drive?
Can someone find me a 2 drive NAS enclosure available in the UK, for sensible money?
Should i just bite the bullet and have 2 external hard drives on my desktop?
Can i put 10000rpm server class drives in the enclosure? Will this be any quicker than 7200rpm
I use Final Cut and Maya and also CS3 on an iMac, has anybody an experience/better solutions?
thanks!!
I'm looking around for an external storage solution to go with an iMac. I'm sure the 500GB HD will run out pretty soon, but i don't want to have 3 external hard drives on my desk taking up all my usb ports.
I need a solution that allows me to read and write to the drives as quickly as possible as i want to use one of the drives as a video editing scratch disk.
I'm not sure how NAS works exactly, but it'll just be me using the drives (a network of one person!) I have a gigabit ethernet port on the iMac that is not being used, i use Wifi for the internet, and i'll use the USB/FW ports for other things.
I'd like a 2 drive enclosure i think, one for a 320GB scratch and another for a 750GB file store - movies/edited footage/music/files/more files!
Am i asking for the impossible?
Is the ethernet port a fast enough interface for a scratch drive?
Can someone find me a 2 drive NAS enclosure available in the UK, for sensible money?
Should i just bite the bullet and have 2 external hard drives on my desktop?
Can i put 10000rpm server class drives in the enclosure? Will this be any quicker than 7200rpm
I use Final Cut and Maya and also CS3 on an iMac, has anybody an experience/better solutions?
thanks!!