External Hard Drive confusion

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dylanpipe

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On my MBP I have only like 88 GB free of memory and Im going to be filming here real soon. So I am in need of a external so I can move all of my FCPX crap onto an external. But I've been reading and it seems like a pain in the ass to move footage and project&events seamlessly. First of all I have about 280GB of footage( raw and edits) on my hard drive. So a 1 TB hard drive would be ample room correct? Any brands to especially avoid? So, how exactly would I move basically everything already on FCPX onto a hard drive.

And, if I wanted to keep my hard drive semi empty and this year put all my footage on the external also and edited off that, is that easy?
 
Answer this for sure, but I recommend OWC

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB

or

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ministack

or if you want bus powered

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB

Definitely get 1tb or 2tb. It's worth going 2tb if you can afford it (only $50 more for 1tb more while a 1tb is $150) and always try to get 7200rpm too (bus powered 7200 is expensive, but for the other two drives theyre 7200 standard)
 


MagSafe power port

Gigabit Ethernet port

FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps)

Two USB 3 ports (up to 5 Gbps)

Thunderbolt port (up to 10 Gbps)

Headphone port

SDXC card slot

Kensington lock slot

8x SuperDrive

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