Friends...
I am working on a Mac Dual Core 3Gig with FCP 5.1.4. I have four Firewire 400-250gig drives that contain 5 years worth of sound effects, music, QT movies, graphics etc. Considering these are aging drives, I want to transfer the media to a new drive. (or drives) In terms of access speed as well as avoiding frame dropping, would it be better to transfer to a single 1Terabite Firewire 800 drive or four 250gig Firewire 800 drives in a daisy chain. (Or hub) ?
And in a related question: Is the Firewire 400 versus 800 merely a function of the drive case and firewire interface? In other words.... if I remove the actual Hitachi 7500 rpm drive from the Firewire 400 case and install it into a Firewire 800 case....will it in fact become a Firewire 800 drive? (And will I still be able to access the media?)
Thank you in advance for your advice.
Ron