external hard drive recommendations?

[Aidan Wilson]

You may be able to get by with just a hard drive with two firewire ports 
to store/edit video. The lacie rugged hard drives can be daisy-chained 
together; plug one into another into another and so on, and the first 
plugs into the computer. Each comes up as a separate device. Moreover, you 
can plug the camera into the last hard drive (or, into *it* if you're 
using just one), and it has the huge benefit of allowing you to transfer 
files between the camera and the hard drive without having them go through 
your computer. If you have ever tried to transfer large video files, 
you'll see the point of this.

-- 
Aidan Wilson

The University of Sydney
+612 9036 9558
+61428 458 969
aidan.wilson at usyd.edu.au

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Tania Granadillo wrote:

> Hello
> I'm looking to get an external hard drive to do video editing in the field so I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations.  I know I need 1TB and a e-SATA connection to be able to have both the
> camera and the harddrive connected to the laptop. Does anyone have any specific models/brands they like? And I'll be in the amazon so high humidity/high temperature...
> 
> Thanks!
> Tania
> 
> --
> Tania Granadillo
> tgranadillo at gmail.com
> Assistant Professor
> Anthropology and Linguistics
> University of Western Ontario
> 
>