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MahaB82A
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December 9, 2021
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External Hard Drive

  • December 9, 2021
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Is it advisable to have external hard drive for video editing? I am asking this because eventhough you change the computer external hard drive can use with any computer. So that without any histation you can spend more money on external HD

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Inspiring
December 9, 2021

There is no difference between internal and external hard drives. You can partition and format them all to EXFAT so they can work on Mac and PC. An internal RAID is the least expensive option to have a large capacity drives an fast throughput. You can stripe 6, 7, 8 or even more hard drives in a RAID zero array and get read and write speeds of over 2000 MBPS. That is megabytes per second not megabits.  They do have external RAID systems and extenal USB enclosure for internal hard drives. I can swap internal hard drives between Mac and PC super easy and super inexpensive. The videos below might be helpful. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfT9ivfbJ98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnLu3n6IRNE

MahaB82A
MahaB82AAuthor
Legend
December 9, 2021

Thanks for the information. There is a huge price different between the SSD internal & external HD. If there is no difference between internal and external hard drives it is good to have external HD. Because external HD can fit with any computer.

 

Dell M.2 PCIe NVME Gen 3x4 Class 40 2280 Solid State Drive - 1TB CAD $480

WD 4TB USB 3.0 WD My Passport portable external hard drive - 4TB CAD $179.99

 

John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2021

Only if the connection is fast enough to work with the data transfer requirement

 

USB2 is far too slow to use for video editing

USB3 is better

eSata is even better

 

MahaB82A
MahaB82AAuthor
Legend
December 9, 2021

I know about seagate external hard drive. But I do not know about eSata HD. Please give me the link. 

John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2021

SSD is a solid state drive... eSata is a type of connection

 

I don't use an external drive for editing, only backup copies

I use a Sata docking station and several 'bare' drives for backup
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-External-docking-station-drives/dp/B00U8KSLA8/