Fire Wire drives

[kingfly]

I'm in need of some more hard drive space and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience recording (or using) to the Fire Wire drives, like the western digital. I know it is a 5400 rpm drive, which is slower than the specs but was just curious. I'm looking for a reasonable external and the firewire drives seem the only ones I see.

Other than that, does anybody recommend any good ATA drives for the $$$.

Thanks.

[crs117]

External firewire drives are great...for making your pt sessions portable. i would not recommend recording to, or editing on a firewire drive because it will be much slower then even the normal 5400 rpm drives.

Good ata drives for the $$$ basically any harddrive now. i just bought a top of the line ibm deskstar 75 gxp drive 45 gigs for 150 dollars on line. This is the fastest ide drive out there, and it was cheap. a year and a a half ago i bought an earlier version of the deskstar which was 20 gigs, and i think i paid nearly 300 for it. This is insanely cheap, and these drives are generally more expensive. You can find cheaper drives, and or bigger drives. Maxtor makes an 80 gig harddrive and i think it doesnt cost more then 200 dollars.

Christian

[Markd102]

G'day Kingfly
I use a "HDD Mobile Rack" and it's a God Send!
It fits in a 5 1/4" drive bay. You Just attach your drive to the caddie and slide it in. It's that simple!
I have 3 drives in caddies that I slide in and out as I need to. (have to shut down first.....obviously)
Have fun
Mark

[Mark_Knecht]

Hi,
Don't go with the 1394 stuff yet, at least for this application. In another year I think they will be much improved, but they're not ready for prime time yet.

This weekend I put a Maxtor 30GB, 7200RPM drive in my old 500MHz Dell machine, along with a MAxtor Ultra/ATA-100 controller and it's working great. I paid $119 for the drive and $49 for the controller at Office Depot. Didn't have to deal with Fry's.

Good luck.

[da BaSsTaRd!]

i have a maxtor firewire drive (40GB) and it sucks. it performs like any other 5400rpm drive except it stalls every now and then, causing my computer to crash. i bought it so i could record with PTFree (before i got the 001) and do video stuff and it worked well enough. it was the cheapest firewire drive when i bought it (by 1/2 the price) and i think it still is. i use it only for backup now and only connect it when i need it - never when tracking..........

i recently bought a normal ide maxtor drive and haven't had any problems with it. other people seem to agree. i'd stay away from the maxtor firewire if i were you........

if you're looking for portability, get a cd writer. i can't think of a bigger media for the price and everyone has a cd-rom.......

[bookem]

Lacie FireWire drives suck. Stay well away from them, unless you enjoy losing data.

[kingfly]

Hello everyone, thanks for your replies. I was wondering if firewire was ready for prime time and sounds like it's not quite. I think I will go with the IBM drive, eveyone seems to be happy with that one.

THANKS!

[jbr]

Has anyone used the "Glyph X-Project" Firewire Drives?

[da BaSsTaRd!]

jbr, who would want one? i can't believe anyone is buying the glyph - not at that price even if it is a solid performer...... looks like a marketing scam to me.....

[Morningstar]

I've got an 18 gig western Digital ata100 7200 rpm HD in an Inclose removable bay. I take it to and from local studios (where I cut drums and other things I can't do at home) to my home studio. Its perfect. Before I had to burn the data to a disk and re-open it, now I just slide the drive in and go. Think I paid 150 for both.

RM