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Old 12-03-2010, 03:54 PM
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I know many people have suggested an external hard drive for storing Pro Tools user files.

My question is this, would a second INTERNAL drive on a separate SATA channel accomplish the same thing?

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The Internal second SATA Drive would be 100 times better than an Firewire External Drive, , Get a 500GB to 1TB, Black, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache Hard Drive.
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Better yet a Black 64 mb cache drive.

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Thanks for the input!
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One thing to consider though... if you are faced with a catastrophic failure and drives are wasted or if there is a theft, flood, or fire the portable backup drive in a different location could the best bet.

If it's not in at least three places... you don't really have it.
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That's the ticket. Record to a good internal(WD Black is a great choice) and keep things backed up to an external and keep that drive somewhere else most of the time.
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That's the ticket. Record to a good internal(WD Black is a great choice) and keep things backed up to an external and keep that drive somewhere else most of the time.
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The Internal second SATA Drive would be 100 times better than an Firewire External Drive
100 times better? How exactly would you quantify such a figure? Lol.


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I told him a MILLION times not to exaggerate In any case, SATA or eSATA should seriously(how's that for ambiguous?) out-perform firewire
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One thing to consider though... if you are faced with a catastrophic failure and drives are wasted or if there is a theft, flood, or fire the portable backup drive in a different location could the best bet.

If it's not in at least three places... you don't really have it.
Don't I know it. I've worked with computers since the TI-99 and since the first time I had a drive crash (a 20mb "monster" in 1986), I've always had some backup system in place.

Good advice for everyone. BACK IT UP!
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