Re: [microsound] external firewire drives for audio?

[Neil Wiernik <neil@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, taylor deupree wrote:

> i had a 2nd internal drive for audio.. but it's giving me problems...
> too complex and unknown to go into here... but, that's why i'm
> looking into another drive.. preferablly NOT something that sits on
> my internal scsi chain..
>
> so maybe i should have been more clear:
>
> is an external firewire drive as good as an internal scsi drive...for
> audio..? or better? or worse?

I would say always internal is better less wire to travel=faster
transphere rates. Maybe you just need a better internal drive and that
would solve the issues your having. Alot of people prefer external as this
way they can take it away from the machine and bring the data into another
studio but if your not doing this then why bother go for an internal drive
it will be best in the end. Just make sure the  drive is fast and
dedicated
solely to audio data, also when ever youve compleated a project its always
a good idea to defrag and if at all possible reformat the drive.

Neil...
(aka naw)


>
> >well firewire is faster then scsi which has been a standard for audio
> >recording. But you might not need an external drive but rather just
> >another drive period.  You should not be doing audio on the same drive as
> >your os and programs sit on. Audio as Im sure you know fragments the drive
> >and really messes things up in terms of where the information sits on the
> >drive ect ect. What would be a better alternative and probally cheaper the
> >an external drive would be to get a second internal drive 20 or 30 gigs
> >drive are pretty cheap these days, make sure its at least 6400 rpm if not
> >faster. And because it will be internal to your machine as part of the
> >internal bus system less wire to travel ect ect, the transphere rates and
> >rate of data transmission loss will be less of a problem then an external
> >drive. Of course if this is a laptop then your talking a differne tstory
> >as there is no room for a second drive, what I woul recomend then is an
> >external firewire drive, VST make some pretty good external drives that
> >work well for sound and video. I used one recently for both a audio and a
> >video project and there were no problems. But if you can add a second
> >internal drive I would do so youll be way more happy with the results.
> >just my 2.5 cents... ;)
> >Neil...
> >(aka naw)
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