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 ....

[metascanner]

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).

[metascanner]

wow
guys your infos are great !
i didn't know glyph and the other one ...
it looks very pro ...
i was about to buy this ; Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 2 To
do you think , glyph will be faster and manage more audio tracks at the same time ?

[Shifted Music]

if the oxford bridge chips are the same and drive seek/read/write times are the same then the only difference is the case. .

I don't think the glyph would necessarily be faster. . .but the one thing about them is they test the glyphs with protools and the cases are real reliable and although I have not needed to deal with them. . the customer service I have heard is excellent.

they are more expensive.

I switched from a lacie 500 big disk extreme i think it was a couple years ago. and imediately noticed a speed difference. it was my syatem drive so it was easy to notice (I startup from a external glyph at the studio I work out of)

but for an audio drive I doubt you would notice the speed...

I just really like the solidness of the case, firewire controller, powersupply, no external power supply that is. . just a regular power cable like most other pro gear.

[srslab]

I use a WD Mybook studio edition which works really well.

[chrisdee]

I also have a WD MyBook Studio edition FW400 (cost about $140). I don't like the crackle sound it sometime is making when using PT8. Sounds like it's getting overloaded, but other than that it works ok.

But I would imagin either using a eSATA or an second internal SATA/SSD drive would be the best/faster alternative. Maby FW is becoming outdated, or what do you think Digidesign ?