Re: [microsound] external firewire drives for audio?

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:20 PM 2/5/01 -0500, taylor deupree wrote:
> i figure someone on this list will be able to shed some light on this for 
> me (kim, maybe?)... anyway.. my internal drive on my new G4 is slow 
> (5400rpm) and giving me some audio recording problems... i need to get 
> another drive, asap... and someone suggested i look into an external 
> firewire drive.. saying the speeds and sustain rates for audio surpass the 
> best scsi drives...
> is this true? does anyone have any opinions/information on using firewire 
> drives for audio recording?

As far as I am aware, top SCSI speeds quite exceed the current of firewire 
at the latter's early state of development, but am not sure of the details 
here.  The real advantage of firewire is its convenience, especially in its 
hot-swapability:  if one is using the same or related software on two 
distant G4s, one can simply unplug the firewire drive from the one, plug it 
into the other, and not have to reboot or reconfigure either machine (or 
fill a slot with a SCSI adapter).  And for CD burners on the Mac, firewire 
seems at last a fine route, and I am burning audio CDs on my firewire 
burner without problems.  If data transfer speed is the priority, however, 
SCSI still seems the better way to go.

> NP: sugar plant "dryfruit"

Any comments on this one?  The three previous albums by this group are 
favorites of mine, but the $40 US price of the new one is daunting.

np - Monolake "Gravity"

joshua maremont / thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
boxman studies label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/