Tagged with station - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/station/p1/feed.rss Tue, 05 Nov 24 10:58:19 +0000 Tagged with station - Personal View Talks en-CA HDD Docking Station http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/7221/hdd-docking-station Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:49:29 +0000 stoney 7221@/talks/discussions Has anyone used a docking station like this? It can take two desktop 'internal' hard drives and has a USB 3.0 connection. I'm not sure whether it supports RAID or not. If not, I could use the 2nd drive as a backup.

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Here's a product review. http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/storage/disk-drives-hdd-ssd/startech-com-usb-3-0-to-sata-ide-hdd-docking-station-1082546/review

USB 3.0 seems fast enough for editing small clips. http://nofilmschool.com/2013/05/macworld-benchmark-battle-usb-3-vs-thunderbolt/

ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-StarTech-com-SuperSpeed-USB-3-0-to-Dual-2-5-3-5in-SATA-Hard-Drive-Docking-St-/161037665603?pt=US_Computer_Cases&hash=item257e97c543

Usually I transcode MTS files into MP4 then edit from Adobe PP and AE. How about saving trascoded files in the external drives and creating PP and AE project files directly on the drives? Does this seem a viable solution?

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