Recommend me a USB3.0 Drive 1TB +

[SuB]

Heylo lads,

I'm looking for a USB 3.0 drive, I want to record Fraps footage to it for editing on another machine.

Needs to be PC and Mac compatible, and pretty quick as I'd prefer to record straight to it. I'm open to Raid 0 solutions also, I'm aware macs don't really 'like' NTFS and Fat32 is no good for 4GB+ sized files but this NEEDS to be able to handle files bigger than 4GB. Anyone got thoughts on cross-compatible file system?

Don't mind if desktop/portable or whatever

Budget is strictly £100.

Why am I asking and not googling? Because I am being kept busy with other things (running the forum while Tom is away, a full time job, and learning to make mobile apps) and my knowledge of external drives is crap, I'm sure someone will pipe up with a 'hey I use this' and I will be happy for those kind of recommendations.

Needs to be plugged into my recording computer by Thursday.

Cheers
Sub

 

[Feronix]

Well, I'm not sure if a regular external hard drive works with Macs as they the use Mac OS X Extended (Jounaled) format for their drives and when I put a drive that was formatted as NTFS in my Hackintosh it would not show.

I guess that this would work:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC306ZM/A/wd-1tb-my-passport-for-mac-portable-hard-drive?fnode=5f

Formatted for Mac
HFS+ journaled so it works right out of the box with your MacBook or MacBook Air. You can also easily reformat it for Windows.

You can easily make a new partition on the drive and format that to NTFS but that way you don't have 1Tb of storage available in each OS. More like 500-500 or 300-700, whatever you like really.

Also, since this is Apple's website they only throw in terms as 'blazing-fast', 'ultra-fast' and 'super-fast' but they don't actually let you know any specs. I'm assuming the drive is 5400 RPM though. Don't know if that would be quite enough for you.

 

[SuB]

It needs to be both OS viewable, the idea being the footage is recorded on PC then edited on the mac, so multi-partitioning is a no go

I'm sure I remember there was a way to tell OSX how to use NTFS drives, but I can't for the life of me remember how.

 

[Feronix]

It needs to be both OS viewable, the idea being the footage is recorded on PC then edited on the mac, so multi-partitioning is a no go

I'm sure I remember there was a way to tell OSX how to use NTFS drives, but I can't for the life of me remember how.

Well, this sounds surprisingly easy:
http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/enable-write-for-ntfs-hard-drives-on.html


Btw, this is for writing. According to the first bit of text they can natively read NTFS drives.

 

[FTLN]

Os X has no problems reading from ntfs, writing is gonna cause you a problem though....

But solutions are available for writing to ntfs on your mac and reading / writing to HFS+ on your PC (Paragon NTFS for mac and Paragon HFS+ For Windows)

I have a 500gb WD Elements portable drive and I am really impressed with the speed... As fast as my internal drives and write speeds are pretty damn close to my Samsung SSD 840.. This drive is capable of multiple partitions types "hfs+ + ntfs" and can be formatted also to mbr or guid..

Here is a link to the 1tb version on amazon (my brother has this one and speeds are identical) and also some screen grabs from crystal disk mark on my 500gb version - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elements-1T...d=1376306729&sr=1-1&keywords=elements+3.0+1tb

EDIT..............

Me and AverageNinja were chatting about this in a thread a few months ago, he reveiwed the WD Elements 1TB drive but only had a usb 2.0 interface to test on http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=52957

 

[Feronix]

Yeah, WD drives are pretty reliable but I couldn't find any with 7200 RPM or even USB 3.0.

Did find these two, though I have no personal experience with either brand:

http://www.seagate.com/external-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/expansion-hard-drive/

http://www.buffalo-technology.com/n...storage/drivestationtm/drivestation-velocity/

Otherwise you can easily buy this:
http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=de/node/1581
And slap a Caviar Blue 1Tb 7200RPM drive in there (which are like £50).

 

[SuB]

Awesome that WD drive FTLN linked and stuff looks perfect tbh. Order made and it'l be here wednesday.

Thanks lads Knew I could count on ya. For £53 I'm happy with that.

UPDATE: Happy with that

 

[FTLN]

Hope it serves you well SuB ..

 

[SuB]

So far so good. Might pickup a second one for the price as well, very impressed so far