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**DaleJrGirl** · 03-30-2009, 09:56 AM

Ahh... well I'm the opposite... the requirements for eSATA connectivity for me are very important. Often I am required to do on-site editing using full HD content. Any external drive connected via Firewire or USB is no where near fast enough to cope (incl. FW-800). Using eSATA enables me to connect any HDD I want, including RAID-0 arrays for uncompressed HD, which is great when doing live transers on-set.

And with internal notebook HDDs with 7200RPM speeds currently limited to 320GB on the consumer level, there is usually not enough room to do local HDD editing on many occasions due to the sheer size required for some on-site projects.

But then again, with Uncompressed HD and many other high end formats not being naitevly supported in Final Cut like they are is in Premiere CS4, you probably don't get this problem anyway. [rofl]

Oh Cubase, I can always rely on your to get twitchy when an Apple thread arises and try to contort it into a pissing contest/battle of the platforms.

Anyway, FCP does support uncompressed HD, with a PCI card which isn't much different from the systems the big guys use like Avid rigs. Regardless, you are right though, I don't run into issues because I do not edit videos, period, let alone uncompressed ones. [rofl] But as I mentioned earlier an eSATA port is just an ExpressCard away.

Also, here is a 500GB 7200RPM notebook drive.

03-30-2009, 09:56 AM	#31
DaleJrGirl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	Ahh... well I'm the opposite... the requirements for eSATA connectivity for me are very important. Often I am required to do on-site editing using full HD content. Any external drive connected via Firewire or USB is no where near fast enough to cope (incl. FW-800). Using eSATA enables me to connect any HDD I want, including RAID-0 arrays for uncompressed HD, which is great when doing live transers on-set. And with internal notebook HDDs with 7200RPM speeds currently limited to 320GB on the consumer level, there is usually not enough room to do local HDD editing on many occasions due to the sheer size required for some on-site projects. But then again, with Uncompressed HD and many other high end formats not being naitevly supported in Final Cut like they are is in Premiere CS4, you probably don't get this problem anyway. [rofl] Oh Cubase, I can always rely on your to get twitchy when an Apple thread arises and try to contort it into a pissing contest/battle of the platforms. Anyway, FCP does support uncompressed HD, with a PCI card which isn't much different from the systems the big guys use like Avid rigs. Regardless, you are right though, I don't run into issues because I do not edit videos, period, let alone uncompressed ones. [rofl] But as I mentioned earlier an eSATA port is just an ExpressCard away. Also, here is a 500GB 7200RPM notebook drive.
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