Hard Drive Setup

[where02190]

Well, it will take about 27 CD's to back up the 30gb drive if it's near capacity.

We use IBM Deskstar ATA internal drives as a second drive. Cheap, (About $110 for a 40gb) convienent, (takes about 4 minutes to swap one out) and totally reliable. (We have over a dozen and zero failures)
Our Master drive is 80gb. We can back up to two drives by copying the slave drive to the master, swap out the slave and copy to a second drive.
We've found this to be very quick and totally reliable. It is also very cost effective. we have done many PT sessions in other studios using the same method.

[ProductionEngelads]

I am setting up our new Mac G4 and have a few questions on how to configure the hard drives.

I am looking to set it up this way:

partition the internal 40gig

30 gig -for archive backup of sessions
10 gig -for system usage

external Glyph 30gig - working drive for audio

Sound ok?

We work on 30 and 60 second radio/tv ads.

So what I am thinking is working on the spots all on the 30 external. Then when the spot is completely finished....remove all unused from the session.. then "save as a copy" on the external 30gig then open that saved copy and then select all audio "compact that audio" then move that now small as possible session onto the internal archive 30 gig partition. So I am not wasting tons of space saving audio that is not really being used. Then occasionally backup the entire internal 30 archive drive to CDRs.

Any problems with my logic?

Is there a way to allow Protools to ONLY see the external Glyph 30 gig for audio??

So nobody mistakingly records new audio onto the internal archive drive or system drive?

Thanks for the help