Okay I've heard you mention not going over 2TB drives on Macs before and I have had issues with external enclosures not recognizing drives over 2 TB properly. My HDX the supposed Cadillac of enclosues won't recognize a 4TB drive when connected by FW800 but it will with the ESata connection. Others like the voyager are okay with 4TB over FW800. I've always assumed it was some sort of chip set kind of incompatibility. What say the real tech heads. In my experience I've never had issue with 4TB on a Mac Pro internal dock. Have I just been lucky. There's a first for everything.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson wrote:
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> This 'bare drive in a toaster' is our methodology for archiving, too. I use the newertech and just about whatever else I can find- just got a SIGG that has the ability to clone drives! We added an eSata card to our library/archive MacPro to take advantage of the cheaper toasters that don't have a firewire connection. Make sure the drive has the right connector on it - a lot of them are USB2 only, and that's kind worthless for archiving/copying, but eSata works good.
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> Nothing seems to work great with anything above a 2TB drive on a mac - has to do with the formatting of the drive, if I understand correctly, but we stick with 2tb drives so there's no hassle or surprise when the drive doesn't spin up in a different 'toaster.' We make two copies of everything when archiving.
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> Not as permanent or reliable as LTO, but much faster for restore. For shipping around, we still use g-drive minis and a similar note-book type drive from Maxx digital, without any trouble. I tried to talk a couple of people we regularly exchange files with into switching to SSDs, but they didn't want to add the drive docks (toasters.) (yes, god forbid your employer spends $40 to save a half hour of your computer time!)
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> On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Dan McCabe wrote:
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> > I've been thinking of going the bare drive route. Anyone have specific
> > experience with a specific drive dock?
> >
> > OWC has the NewerTech Voyager that unlike the one at Amazon below is
> > hot-swappable (but the NewerTech holds only one drive.)
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013, at 03:29 PM, Wilson Chao wrote:
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> > Get yourself a bunch of bare drives and some drive docks like this:
> > [1]http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-NexStar-2-5-Inch-3-5-Inch-NST-D400SU3/d
> > p/B007XJIYRC/
> > Then if one of the docks dies, just toss it and get another.
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:15 PM, ksirul [2]kenavid2@...>
> > wrote:
> > In the past 2 months, I've had 2 G-Tech drives stop working (powers
> > on but the drives don't spin) and this morning, a mini-G-Tech's fan
> > stopped working and the drive has problems spinning up. What is it
> > with these drives? Yea yea, I know, drives die, but G-Tech drives have
> > consistantly been problematic lately. Anyone else seen this? What else
> > should I use other than Glyph?
> > _
> >
> > References
> >
> > 1. http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-NexStar-2-5-Inch-3-5-Inch-NST-D400SU3/dp/B007XJIYRC/
> > 2. mailto:kenavid2%40glueedit.com
> >
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