what kind of external hard drive for protools ?

[metascanner]

what external hard drive you advice for protools please ? to work on and back up too ....

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anybody ?

[Nick Camaron]

You probably wouldn't want anything less than 7200rpm..
On Brands there are as many opinions as users exist.
I can tell you that I like "Avastor", "Western Digital My Book Studio". As well I never had bad experiences with the small pocket drives by Lacie.
Others will tell you all of them suck..
So it´s up to you..
There is no guarantee that the best rated harddrive will go bust..

[metascanner]

ok ty for your answer m8te ...
i was only wondering if i had any interest to use 15000 rpm hard drive ...
would be curious to have feedback on those stuff ....

[Shifted Music]

well I use glyph externals... but I don't use externals for my audio drive. I have an internal raptor drive 10K... the newer velociraptor drive would be great with Pro tools... it would put it in a good case to get the full benefit... which external case is the best??? I an not sure. I also have a few Granite Digital cases. Old school digital audio company, known to be robust, powerful, run cool, but not cheap... like a hundred bucks per case vs the 30 deals you can find... Maybe there are other good cases. . . but after 3 Lacies went bad on me 2 in the same month I am still not over the shock and stick with the best i can afford...

Roctstor seems very good for the price point. I think if running audio was my goal, off an external i would choose glyph. They are very well aware of pro tools and qualify and test the drives with it. I think thats rare.

I would personally use and internal Velociraptor for audio... expensive drive. . but no case so if you were gonna a get a good reliable case then internal is about a hundred bucks cheaper... Glyph external vs Velociraptor internal... Still Velociraptor internal for me...

[albee1952]

I have seen plenty of reports that ultra-fast drives(10K and up) offer no performance increase with Protools. I agree that the Glyph drives are among the best available but they are pretty pricey. My next recommended choice are the OWC Mercury Elite series and they are available with either FW400 AND FW800, or 2x FW400 ports. 7200 RPM is recommended(and any slower is absolutely NOT recommended). There are also some Bytec cases with the Oxford chipset for loading in your own drives(OWC has empty cases too).