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Question about Need to re-format Lacie HD for video capture?

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Eddie NYC

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Just got my new Macbook Pro and a 320 gig Lacie external hard drive.

1) Saw something somewhere about people saying if you plan on capturing video directly to the HD (routed through the computer), that you need to reformat the drive to Mac OS Extended. Is this true if I'm doing a bunch of hour long home movies?

2) I have the 7200 RPM Internal hard drive on my system, but is it okay to capture directly to the external and bypass the internal. The internal should be adequate, but would like to go right to the external.

Thanks.
 
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You're going to have to, because most Lacie drives come formatted as FAT32, which doesn't support video files of more than 4Gb. You'll be better off formatting to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

You'll be fine bypassing the internal. I've imported a lot of stuff straight to a *Firewire* external.
 
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You're going to have to, because most Lacie drives come formatted as FAT32, which doesn't support video files of more than 4Gb. You'll be better off formatting to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

You'll be fine bypassing the internal. I've imported a lot of stuff straight to a *Firewire* external.


Great thanks. Already copied some stuff over to the new drive but can do it again. Re-formatting the drive shouldn't impact the stability or reliability of it should it, and its pretty simple to do?
 
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You'll be fine bypassing the internal. I've imported a lot of stuff straight to a *Firewire* external.[/QUOTE]


Two last questions, found a site that walks through the reformatting. What is the difference between Extended, Extended (Journal), plus the other variations with case sensitivities. It seemed to imply that you use Journal if you want to boot the computer from it (adding drivers). Should I do this vs. just using exteded.

Secondly, there seem to be a lot of options about erasing or not erasing data. I just have some pictures on it at this point and can re-copy over to it. Not quite sure what to do.

Sorry for the questions, just switched from a PC and want to make sure I don't screw something up!

Thanks again.
 

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