cheap san was (E: [NTLUG:Discuss] File Size Limit)

[Cameron, Thomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:25, Alfred Dayton wrote:
> > An excelent idea tr_data, for my individual sporadic needs 
> however, for the
> > innocent end users
> > 
> > Of the production video editing system this would not be viable.
> 

> Howdy,
>   I wonder if a firewire drive might work well for this.  Would it be
> reasonable to ask the user to swap a firewire cable from one system to
> another?  If you do this, don't use one of the little cases 
> that handle
> only laptop drives.  Laptop drives are too slow.  Get one that holds a
> 3.5 inch drive and use a good one.
> Good luck,
> Ralph

I use external USB 2.0 drives for my laptop - they are waaaaay faster than the internal 5400 RPM drive.

Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America
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