If you copy to a single non-RAID hard drive, the drive itself becomes a bottleneck, and will slow things down (copying the 32GB card to a single FireWire 800 drive required 14 minutes, seven seconds). By copying to a RAID, my Mac was able to write the card data as fast as it could read it from the PCD35.
P2 card reader firewire pro#
I used a Mac Pro to copy the P2 footage directly to a fast eight drive Sonnet DX800 RAID (configured as RAID 6 for extra crash protection). Of course, your mileage may vary depending on your hardware/software setup.
P2 card reader firewire full#
In other words, the PCD35 finally delivers the full potential of P2’s solid-state media. To transfer that footage from Sony’s “tapeless” XDCAM disk would take less time, but still nowhere near 28 minutes. It would take you several hours to transfer that HD footage from tape, not to mention you’d also have to pay some poor soul to manually feed one tape after another into an expensive-to-maintain deck. Let’s let that number sink in for a moment, especially for those people still clinging to the Old World of tape. Even better, I filled up five 32GB P2 cards with six-and-a-half hours of footage (720/24p), and transferred all five cards to my Mac in…wait for it….28 minutes, five seconds.
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