Hard drives, smaller is better except you need it bigger
Huh???
I've started to show the new Mac video applications including Premiere Pro to some accounts and because all of these applications are still beta, I've gotten into the habit of keeping them off my main, everyday laptop which is a 15" Macbook Pro. This is easy to do since the Mac OS allows you to boot from an external drive. I installed a clean version of the OS and then installed the Adobe builds of the applications.
I've received a few of the new G-Tech drives from the company and I have to say I'm pretty impressed thus far. You see, they're small enough to carry around easily because they're using 2.5" drives (laptop drives) instead of the larger and faster 3.5" drives. Usually, these laptop drives are slower and thus a problem for playing back video. However, my tests thus far have shown it to ably play back DV and HDV with aplomb.
If you need faster, they've got my favorite, which is the g-raid mini which takes two of these drives and stripes them together. Best of all, they can fire up over bus power, meaning I don't necessarily need a power supply to use them. However, I'm using the external power supply for the g-raid mini so I can boot from the g-mini and use the g-raid mini as my video drive with assets. I have to because the Mac laptop is pretty skimpy when it comes to bus power.
So, smaller is better, except you need it bigger. 'Bigger' of course is describing our growing demand for more storage to store more of our lives (and back them up of course!?!)
Since gear and technology is such a part of our everyday existence and since Adobe is all about technology, it seems appropriate for me to add a category for posts such as this.
What gear gets you going? I'll be sure to let you know what turns my head.