From the course: Creating Time-Lapse Video

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Choosing a working drive

Choosing a working drive

From the course: Creating Time-Lapse Video

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Choosing a working drive

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- If you're shooting time-lapse, you're going to have a lot of data, therefore, you're going to need some hard drives. I just want to talk a little bit about choosing a drive based upon your needs. Now, if you're going to be shooting in the field a lot, you're going to want a portable solution. Maybe it's a bus powered solution something like this drive here Notice it connects out. The important thing here is these days I look for USB 3.0. It's a bus power drive that's fast and gives you significantly quicker transfer rates, much higher data rate throughput than FireWire or USB 2.0. Now, that's what I would go if I needed something that I plugged into the laptop and it just ran off of the laptop's battery. However, a lot of times for the field I want some redundancy and security. I tend to now take out this unit. This is a portable raid from Drobo. There are other portable raids out there. You will need to plug a raid…

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