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I just came back from my epic trip around Australia. Was there for a month and I only covered a 1/3 of it. Was so much fun!
As some of you know, I brought my BMCC with plans to shoot a short doc of a local (which unfortunately fell through) and some of my epic journey. To keep things light, my kit was packed entirely into a single backpack. It was a 14Kg/30lb backpack, but at least it was all in one bag.
The plan was to shoot and download to the MBP, then onto the portable drives, then leave the SSDs full. This would give me a total of 3.5TB of storage and I could shoot pretty much 6 hours of RAW if needed.
To use the MBP, which doesn't have Thunderbolt or USB3, I bought a USB3 expresscard and an external enclosure with dual cables (for USB3 power) I tested the setup multiple times and found the magic procedure to get everything to work...at a max 75MB/sec, still better than the 25MB/sec I was getting with USB2.
I also purchased a new hard drive for the MBP, to replace the CD drive. Further expanding my storage. The WD 750GB drive to be exact.
I only used the MBP storage as I didn't shoot nearly as much I was planning to. 200GB on the main drive and 500GB on the second drive. I was also backing up those files to the external drives, but I got unmotivated as the transfer times were so long and I had many, many beers to drink. I felt pretty comfortable leaving the content on the MBP drives.
Last night I was transferring all my footage and guess what? My new 750GB HD just s--- the bed halfway through transfer The hard drive is only 3 weeks old and has less than 15 hours runtime on it...and it's clicking, not mounting. Done.
Now, I had been transferring some of the footage over to backup drives and main drive while on the road, so I actually have a lot of it saved, but I figure I've lost about 200GB of raw data. All because I was too lazy to back it up while I was on the road.
I could send the drive for data recovery and I would if the footage was of substantial value...but paying over $1600 to recover footage of me opening beer bottles with a chainsaw, while pretty epic footage, isn't worth it.
Important reminder to not be lazy and cover yourself. External drives are cheap, losing valuable data is not.
As some of you know, I brought my BMCC with plans to shoot a short doc of a local (which unfortunately fell through) and some of my epic journey. To keep things light, my kit was packed entirely into a single backpack. It was a 14Kg/30lb backpack, but at least it was all in one bag.
The plan was to shoot and download to the MBP, then onto the portable drives, then leave the SSDs full. This would give me a total of 3.5TB of storage and I could shoot pretty much 6 hours of RAW if needed.
To use the MBP, which doesn't have Thunderbolt or USB3, I bought a USB3 expresscard and an external enclosure with dual cables (for USB3 power) I tested the setup multiple times and found the magic procedure to get everything to work...at a max 75MB/sec, still better than the 25MB/sec I was getting with USB2.
I also purchased a new hard drive for the MBP, to replace the CD drive. Further expanding my storage. The WD 750GB drive to be exact.
I only used the MBP storage as I didn't shoot nearly as much I was planning to. 200GB on the main drive and 500GB on the second drive. I was also backing up those files to the external drives, but I got unmotivated as the transfer times were so long and I had many, many beers to drink. I felt pretty comfortable leaving the content on the MBP drives.
Last night I was transferring all my footage and guess what? My new 750GB HD just s--- the bed halfway through transfer The hard drive is only 3 weeks old and has less than 15 hours runtime on it...and it's clicking, not mounting. Done.
Now, I had been transferring some of the footage over to backup drives and main drive while on the road, so I actually have a lot of it saved, but I figure I've lost about 200GB of raw data. All because I was too lazy to back it up while I was on the road.
I could send the drive for data recovery and I would if the footage was of substantial value...but paying over $1600 to recover footage of me opening beer bottles with a chainsaw, while pretty epic footage, isn't worth it.
Important reminder to not be lazy and cover yourself. External drives are cheap, losing valuable data is not.