mreddington Posted July 27, 2008 Share #21 Posted July 27, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi Steve, Thanks for the tip. I hadn't thought of doing that. What make of external drives do you use? The price difference between the standard 320GB disk and the 1TB option is 240 € so it might make more sense for me to by an external firewire 800 drive that I can add to in a RAID array as necessary. I read that the primary OS drive can't be incorporated into a RAID array so it might be a more future-proof strategy. Mind you, I am a rather sporadic photographer so it would probably take me years to fill a 1TB disk so I'll look into the cost of external drives. Maybe getting a 500GB external (I have about 380 GB now on my PC drive) and adding more as the cost comes down would make more economic sense than going straight for 1TB. Something to mull over. I might take the Mac route in the autumn. I am working with Vista at the moment and don't count myself among the Vista-bashers. In fact I quite like working with it, except for the fact that over the last months after the automatic updates things like my Wacom tablet and scanner just stopped being recognised. I could undoubtedly fix it but just don't have the time and patience. My plan is to move my photo and music files to the Mac with scanners, printer etc. and leave the PC more for office work. Of course, this might be the first step to liberating myself from the PC but we'll see. I still need it for work. Cheers Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sean_reid Posted July 27, 2008 Share #22 Posted July 27, 2008 One thing to keep in mind about the iMac and drives is that the internal drive is connected through SATA (or SATA II probably) and that gives it much faster access/write times than a drive connected through USB 2. What we do with my wife's computer is to keep a folder on the internal drive that is for shoots that she is actively editing. That gives her fast drive interaction. Then, once the shoot is edited, converted, etc. (ie: she's done working on it) she transfers it to an external drive to make room for newer shoots. We also use another external, naturally, for Time Machine backups. One reason that I prefer the Mac Pro for working with lots and lots of large files is that I can have a whole set of drives connected through SATA II. I have four mounted in the computer and three running externally (two via the internal SATA II connections and one via a SATA II card). But if you're not normally working with a large volume of pictures the iMac arrangement might be fine. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreddington Posted July 27, 2008 Share #23 Posted July 27, 2008 Thanks for your advice, Sean. I expect we are dealing with very difference volumes of files. I'll ponder this over the summer. Incidentally, I enjoyed your GX200 review. If I didn't have the GX100 already I would be tempted. All the best Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted July 27, 2008 Share #24 Posted July 27, 2008 Thanks for your advice, Sean. I expect we are dealing with very difference volumes of files. I'll ponder this over the summer. Incidentally, I enjoyed your GX200 review. If I didn't have the GX100 already I would be tempted. All the best Martin Hi Martin, We may well be dealing with very different volumes of files. I measure much of my digital life in TB now. Glad you enjoyed the GX200 review. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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