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Old 04-28-2009, 06:59 AM
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Default Hard Drive Help Needed
I Have Pro Tools 8 installed on G5 PPC, with a Digi 003 Rack+
I am about to purchase an External Hard Drive for my Sessions (Audio)
The hard drive that I am looking at is as follow:
Lacie 500 GB, D2 Quadra eSata
USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800
7200 Rpm, Buffer Size 16mb Cache
Is this a good Drive for my audio sessions?
Your advice is greatly appreciated and needed.
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Old 04-28-2009, 07:21 AM
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Assuming you are in the US check out OWC for external drives. There are mixed reviews regarding the lacies, also the OWC drives have the recommended oxford chipsets.

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Old 04-28-2009, 07:32 AM
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I agree with Dougfather's entire post verbatim...
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Old 04-28-2009, 12:18 PM
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In following up with the original post.
How about a OWC 500 GB Mercury Elite-AL Pro
7200 rpm, oxford 934, firewire 400, usb 2.0
is this drive good for my audio files
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Old 04-28-2009, 12:48 PM
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+1 on Doug's response!!
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In following up with the original post.
How about a OWC 500 GB Mercury Elite-AL Pro
7200 rpm, oxford 934, firewire 400, usb 2.0
is this drive good for my audio files
OWC are just good anyway but if u could get 1 w/fw800 on it that would be good'er...
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Seems ok.... As long as drive is running @ 7200rpm (main thing) you shoudn't have a prob
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