Silent External Drives 400 & 800 fire wire Option?

[davedanvers]

Dear readers,

I record a lot of acoustic and vocals in my production room, I have been using a lacie fire wire 400 80 gig drive, its very stable but loud as hell. I want to get a fast 7600rpm and silent drive like a g –tech quad and even a mini g –tech, my questions are…

1. fire wire G-tech quad 400 or 800, could fire wire 800 be used with my *set up? Are there real obvious advantages of 800 speeds with my set up?

2. mini g-tech any one using a 400 or 800 with a similar set up?
Does your lap top give enough power to the fire wire ports to run the bus powered drive and communicate with the 002\?

3. Any recommendations for a silent quality drive?

*Set up
Mac Os X 4.6
Pro tools 7.1
Logic 7
Vintage, Powerbook G4 1.6ghz, 1.5 gbddr2 sdram,
This powerbook has a shared bus 400 and 800 fire wire port.
002 rack fire wire 400,

many thanks dave d.
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[Craig F]

silent = no fan = heat = dead drive

[davedanvers]

Thank you Craig F

For your quick response,

But what about heat syncing is that just hype then? Does that not really work, have haven’t tried it my self with a hard drive, but I do have a reference amplifier that has heat syncing and it seems to work? it stays very cool on long hot summer days in the studio. So you think the option for silent housing is not realistic then? Does any one else have any comments cause some one some ware must have tried a G - Tech or some other heat syncing fan less drive? Or are you all putting up with a lot of noise ?

Dave D

[Craig F]

your amp dose not have a little motor doing 7200 RPM

I the drive had the same heat sinks as you amp it would probably be ok

I get paranoid about drives failing, I've had enough die to be as carful as posable