Is Western Digital external 120 GB FW drive suitable for PT ?

[Dale-c]

How many tracks will you be using? It should be fine as long as it is 7200 RPM. If you don't usually do more than 16 tracks it should be fine. I have tracked 16 to my internal drive on my iMac before actually! I use an Acomdata 40 gig 7200 firewire drive that has been very good for me so far. I would reccomend at least two or three partitions on that though, that should improve your performance.

[GORILLA]

I got two Western digital 120g with 8mb cache 7200 rpm firewire drives from OWC and a 120gig internal Western Digital hard drive from them too! All have been working flawless!

[Tubelover]

Originally posted by Dalecoz:
.. I would reccomend at least two or three partitions on that though, that should improve your performance.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Partitioning a drive can't improve performance, it's still one drive with the same specs except now it's been sliced into 2, 3 or 4 seperate volumns.

The WD drives with the 8 MB cache are the best performers right now for a high level or simultaneous reads and writes. If you can run the drive internally on a seperate bus you'll have better performance than the FW bridge can offer.

[ISedlacek]

Is someone using Western Digital 120 GB FW drive for ProTools ? I have an opportunity to get one now, but I am not sure whether it would work perfectly with PT. I cannot find out in its specifications whether it has Oxford 911 Chipset or not.

[ISedlacek]

8MB cache ? I cannot find it in the specifications on WD web. They write buffer: 2MB. Is this something different ?
I enquired whether it has Oxford chipset, but they just sent me a copy of the specifications I could anyway find on the web. I would expect them just to write yes or no ...

[auxsend1]

try here

[ISedlacek]

Yes, but this is an internal drive.

"If you don't usually do more than 16 tracks it should be fine. "

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Do you mean playback or recording ?

[WorldOfWiz]

I have the 80 GB drive I love it no problems. I run it with my TiBook when using the MBox

Wiz

[ISedlacek]

Good news. So, no reports "your disk is too slow or fragmented etc." ? Is the performance the same as an internal disc ?

[GORILLA]

I've never run into those "your drive is too fragmented" and I heard if you partition, say take a 120 gb HD into 6x20 when you do a session on one 20g partition the drive only has to look or work in that 20g partition instead of the whole 120g drive? Thats just what I've heard...I'm no computer whiz [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
These Western Digital 8mb cache drives ROCK!!!!!