Hard Drive advice

[smashannon]

My 2 ¢ worth...I prefer outboard drives for everything that's not on the start-up disk. ClubMac makes some stackable firewire drives and CDR's that have been working out well for my multi-computer config...and since Roxio Toast will allow multiple simultaneous CD burning on a single computer...life is good!

[lwilliam]

I'm not sure what you'd use the 80GB system drive for, but I suppose you could always use it for a quick backup of sessions created on the other drive. Then you could burn them to CDR at your leisure.

I'd partition the 80GB audio drive into something reasonable like 12-15GB partitions. You'll get slightly better performance out of it. It'll also be a little easier to manage: name one "current projects"; one "demo software"; one "Sammy's stuff" (assuming you work with "Sammy" [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]), etc.

I use a single 17" CRT myself, but one-for-one, people who have used dual-monitors rave about them and never want to go back to a single monitor. Personally, I think a 15" is a bit small (my 17" is really a bit small). Dual 19" LCDs would be the ticket. However, a 15" + a 17" might be OK. Others will probably chime in...

[amarlow]

I am going to order a new G4 to use with Digi 001. My plan (since I need lots of disk space) is to oder a 733 mHz G4 tower with the two 80 gb Ultra ATA drives. Is this reasonable, or should I consider another drive configuration?
Also, I plan on getting a 17" LCD display. Will I have enough room on that to keep the transport, mixer and tracks all in view and usable at the same time? Or would it be more reasonable to go with a 15" LCD display and a second video card, so I can keep the tracks on the lcd and put the mixer and transport on an old 15" crt I have laying around?