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Old 08-24-2007, 01:45 AM
omarchandla omarchandla is offline
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Default Compatible Firewire Bus Powered drives?

I have Pro Tools Mix3 system 6.4.1 running on a G4 Dual 1.25GHz, and ProTools LE 7.3 running on a MacBook Pro. I use a bus powered 80GB drive, for smaller sessions, which i've had for approx 3 years, this works fine on both systems, this drive is now full.

I thought it best to buy a 2nd drive, so I purchased a new 160Gb Freecom Mobile Pro (bus powered) drive. However, when I try to play sessions from it, ProTools keeps stopping, complaining that the drive is not fast enough.. etc.

I thought that surely a drive that was bought in 2007 would be fine, if a 3 year old bus powered one worked... I was wrong!

I know I cant exepct the full track count with bus powered, but it's handy for editing jobs where I'm running from one system to another at different locations.

One other drive I've seen, is the Formac Disk Mini.

What do you recommend?
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Old 08-24-2007, 08:48 AM
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Default Re: Compatible Firewire Bus Powered drives?

I had problems recording on a bus-powered 5400 rpm drive [DAE errors, etc.]. Things became much more stable when I switched to a 7200 rpm one. Many of the fw drives out there are the slower speed, particularly the larger bus-powered ones.

The only drawback I've had with the faster drive is slightly reduced battery life [so I'm usually recording when plugged into power now]. Take what I say with a grain of salt as I am a novice, though...
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Old 09-06-2007, 06:23 PM
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Default Re: Compatible Firewire Bus Powered drives?

Hello,

Do you have a Firewire, 7200rpm external hard drive that is not powered by an adapter?

I have searched and have not found one.

I am trying to find a small, firewire 400, 7200rpm external drive that does not have to be plugged into the wall.

If you have found one, could you let me know the manufacturer and model?

Thanks!
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Old 09-17-2007, 03:39 PM
bigloutech bigloutech is offline
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Default Re: Compatible Firewire Bus Powered drives?

Other World Computing makes some great bus-powered Firewire drives that run at 7200 RPM.
Google - OWC Mercury On-The-Go
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