External Firewire Drive Recommendations?

[bounce88]

Hola. I've been bad about keeping up with new products and upgrades for a while. I'm running a G4 450 and PT LE 5.1. I'm taking a pretty big project into a world class studio for mixing. They said they want the sessions on an external firewire drive.
I about two years ago, I bought an external Maxtor firewire and had nothing but trouble with it.
Does anyone out there know a good one to get that won't give me any trouble with the ancient set up that I have? At what I'm paying an hour to go in there, I really don't want to be held up by a stupid drive.
Thanks in advance.

bounce

[orage]

Try OWC or Transintl external FW's. Both companies have pretty good reps around here.

Also check up on the DIGI compato docs for FireWire...you're mainly looking for a 7200RPM drive with the Oxford 911 chip-set.

Hope this helps!

[jes]

a bandmate came over with a new maxtor (one of those "one touch" blue button ones) 200gb drive, i ended up running sessions straight off of it. normally i would transfer everythign to one of the internal drives, but we had no problems, 32 tracks -- mostly straight through recording, a few tracks with heavy editing.
this using quicksilver G4 dual 1ghz, digi 001, os 10.3.2 pt 6.2.2.

[mondoJML]

We have had really good luck with both the OWC drives as well as the Wiebetech FW drives.

[M Lawrence]

i actually just bought a serial ata card (internal) with one of the new western digital "raptor" 10,000rpm drives, but you can also get cards with external interfaces, & put a serial ata drive in an external case.


ml

[where02190]

We use a device called a Firedock, which allows exchangeable drives within a single FW enclosure. Works excellent with Protools on Mac (os9 and osx) and Windows formats.

[M Lawrence]

hey, what's my best bet for copying an OS disk to a new one? disk copy, or just dragging the original hd's icon onto the new hd's?


ml

[auxsend1]

Carbon Copy Cloner.

[where02190]

CopyAgent or CarbonCopyCloner will do the job. We use CopyAgent.

[M Lawrence]

thanx! i used cccloner, & it was a snap! btw, the west. digi "Raptor" (10,000rpm sata) screams with the firmtek sata card! say goodbye to scsi!!! i also just put a gigadesigns 1.4ghz in my g400; WOW!!!!!


ml