You see, I do all my editing on a 2 year old Toshiba notebook, with a tiny little 40GB drive. Besides all the regular programs I have on it, I need some space for my video footage.
An hour of mini-DV tape usually takes up about 15GB, and on my best day, when I've dumped all the episodes of "The Sopranos" off of it, I rarely have more than 18GB available. So I ordered this new drive.
Isn't it sexy? A 250GB, 7200 rpm, combo Firewire and USB external drive; delivered from Torrence, CA got here in two days, for $159 total. I found it by Googling "external drive firewire", and by sifting throught the results I got that killer price on it.(Gee, I wonder if anybody will notice the copy and paste construction of this post?)
Anyway, today I was trying to load DV footage, but it kept cutting off the file size at 4GB, which is about 18 minutes. I did a little research, and figured out that the drive was formatted for FAT32, which limits total file size to 4GB.
So I'm reformatting it with NTFS, which I hope will resolve the issue. I'll know later today, 'cause I'm going sailing right now. Wheee!
1 comment:
Sexy as F*** when you think my first pc was 1 gig,2'nd 6gig,3rd 14gig but i updated this to a 40gig hard drive,but it was slow as fuck,i'm now playing on a machine with a 2 gig processor with 80 gig hard drive and 80 gig slave drive,when i fill both drive's up i'll have to think about updateing?
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