Thursday, May 12, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] External Drive for media w/ MacBook Pro

 

You can use a paper punch to cut the HD notch in a DD disc and save more files.

On 5/12/11, Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@gmail.com> wrote:
> I too had problems with the older DS/DD (double sided, double density,
> 360KB) floppies. But with these new-fangled DS/HD (double sided, high
> density, 1.2MB) floppies my R3D files play back fine.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:59 PM, ksirul <kenavid2@glueedit.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting some studdery video trying to play back 4k Red files from a 5
>> 1/2" floppy disk. WTF?
>>
>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, David Ross <speckydave@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > I totally agree.
>> > Though the original poster was asking for opinion on a 3.5" desktop
>> > drive, it's cheap and non-raid, so its performance is probably little
>> > better than the cheapo 2.5" drives you're talking about and 40MB/s is
>> > going to be about the best you can expect over FW800. A quick test of
>> > a similar domestic Western Digital drive I have here confirms this.
>> > The same files copied onto the same drive from the same source over
>> > USB 2 gets me a transfer rate of 27MB/s.
>> >
>> > So hey; FW800 sucks less in my book.
>> >
>> > D.
>

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