MacBook Pro Peripherals

[tad]

Buying MacBook Pro. Need to buy laptop before desktop for travel purposes. Would like to know what external drives to purchase for storage, backup, and scratch. Speed is important. I will eventually use these drives for the desktop.

Laptop will have the following:

4GB Memory
160 GB 720 rpm hard drive
17"  Pro HD display

Will this system be sufficient in the short term for editing (photographs) purposes.

Thanks for the edvice.

[LA30]

Speed is important. I will eventually use these drives for the desktop.
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Well then a portable 7200 rpm drive in a firewire 800 or esata case. (not cheap)  You can also do a BIG 200-250gb 5400 rpm drive and not fill it up.  After half filled drives slow down a lot.

I wouldn't worry about a scratch for the laptop.

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You will need a Esata card $60-$100.00

This is not light but I travel with it.  http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2en2/  It allows me to carry 2 500gb drives and they are cheap.  Case with Esata card for macbook pro is $300 plus the drives +- 100 each for a 500 gb drive.  So $550 for a tb of data or 500gb with a 500 gb back up  
The pocket drives are buss powered so you don't need to power them with firewire 400 or 800.  IF you use the esata you will need power.  It comes down to needing power to power the drive or not and weight.  Best of luck.

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ken

[tad]

Well then a portable 7200 rpm drive in a firewire 800 or esata case. (not cheap)  You can also do a BIG 200-250gb 5400 rpm drive and not fill it up.  After half filled drives slow down a lot.

I wouldn't worry about a scratch for the laptop.

http://www.wiebetech.com/products/toughtech_mini.php

You will need a Esata card $60-$100.00

This is not light but I travel with it.  http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2en2/  It allows me to carry 2 500gb drives and they are cheap.  Case with Esata card for macbook pro is $300 plus the drives +- 100 each for a 500 gb drive.  So $550 for a tb of data or 500gb with a 500 gb back up   
The pocket drives are buss powered so you don't need to power them with firewire 400 or 800.  IF you use the esata you will need power.  It comes down to needing power to power the drive or not and weight.  Best of luck.

read this!
http://www.barefeats.com/rosa05.html
ken
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Thanks a lot for the info. I looked into it and it looks like a great product.

[julian_love]

Laptop will have the following:

4GB Memory
160 GB 720 rpm hard drive
17"  Pro HD display

Will this system be sufficient in the short term for editing (photographs) purposes.
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The system will be fine unless you want to start stiching huge files. I use a MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz w. 3GB ram and it runs Lightroom and PS fine with my 1Ds mkII files. I use LaCie 1TB external drives with FW800 interface when I am back at the office - one for primary storage and another as backup. I find them fast enough.

Julian