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Old 03-29-2012, 05:18 AM
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Lightbulb Re: Why does Avid recommend external USB over external Firewire for audio drive?

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Originally Posted by ejwells View Post
An additional internal drive is always the best choice for audio, followed by an external eSATA drive.
Personally, I'd never use a USB drive for audio, recommended or not.
Yeah, this was always my view, which is why I have always used them for my main rig.

I'm thinking I can just switch the volume labels on the hard drives to trick iTunes and such into thinking the media is still in the same spot!
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