Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!sinagua.hampshire.edu!user From: rmuller@fremont.hampshire.edu (Richard Muller) Newsgroups: rec.video.production,comp.multimedia,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware Subject: gigabyte-size disk storage Followup-To: rec.video.production Date: 10 Mar 1994 23:08:43 GMT Organization: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Lines: 16 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: sinagua.hampshire.edu Xref: cdrom.com rec.video.production:24 comp.multimedia:2516 comp.publish.cdrom.hardware:140 We're configuring a Macintosh system (probably a Quadra 650) to do image and sound manipulation, including nonlinear video editing using Premiere or something very like it. Any comments on what high-capacity disk drives to go with? What continuous data transfer rate do we really need? Specific first-hand comments on the Micropolis AV-series drives or the FWB disk arrays? Thanks. Rich -- Richard L. Muller School of Communications and Cognitive Science Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002 voice: (413) 582-5687 fax: (413) 549-7121 rmuller@fremont.hampshire.edu