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Is 5400 rpm o.k. for back-up?
Hello,
One question and one recommendation, please: I want to buy an external 40 gig firewire drive for backing up my sessions. Is the 5400rpm drive fine or would I benefit from the faster seek time of the 7200rpm? I was looking at Outpost.com. At a Maxtor external or the PYRO firewire drive kit enclosure w/my choice of drive. Also the Que! looked decent. Any other external drive recommendations? G4 400 Digi 001 10g Maxtor 7200 30g Seagate 7200(audio) Much appreciated. Musically -R [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] |
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Re: Is 5400 rpm o.k. for back-up?
I use a 5400 on my G4 for recording. Should be just fine for backup.
Although it's not as fast as a 7200, so copying large files would take longer (I think). |
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Re: Is 5400 rpm o.k. for back-up?
I think the speed issue would not be significant...especially in a backup role. Hopefully the firewire bus is not the same bus you record on...there have been reports of problems mixing 7200 and 5400 drives on the SAME bus, but you are likely OK.
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Re: Is 5400 rpm o.k. for back-up?
For backup, this is of no concern.... ONLY for backup...did I say... for backup only?
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Re: Is 5400 rpm o.k. for back-up?
Thanks Gents,
I'll look at getting the 40 gig 5400 rpm external drive for now, yes, for back-up only. My burner is also firewire. However, the other (2) 7200 rpm drives are internal ATA drives. Musically [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] |
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