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Old 11-13-2002, 08:08 AM
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Default Re: Firewire... The absolute best??

Oh yeah, forgot to weigh in on Firewire.

We have about 20+ OWC drives here and all have worked great. Well, all except one that got put by a marshall stack while turned up to 11. That will kill any drive.

Anyway, they are near silent, quite small and plenty fast for 32 24-bit tracks on a Mix+ system. The new 8MB buffer one should be even better.
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Old 11-13-2002, 08:39 AM
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Default Re: Firewire... The absolute best??

I've been using Firewire as audio drives exclusively for about 2.5 years now, without incident. (knock on wood [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] .

I started with 3 ClubMac 75G (oxford 911 chips - by sheer luck at the time, had no idea that that was to become a necessity).

I'm now using the OWC Mercury Elite cases exclusively.
http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Pa...=FW&Template=1

Even the 5400rpm 160G's, have been just fine for my purposes (Sound Design, and premix playback of up to 32 tracks at a time). That said, I typically cut with more than 32 tracks activated, withut problems, but I can't say for sure how many tracks reliably play back at once. I've never noticed any limitations, that were any different from the old days of SCSI.

I've been telling people for 2 years now that firewire is great for PT drives, but most still don't believe me, and use firewire for library only, and copy to SCSI for PT playback.
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Old 11-13-2002, 09:25 AM
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Default Re: Firewire... The absolute best??

Thanks to everyone who responded. I think in the future, I plan to stay away from the hitachi IBM drives, and go for the WD 8mb cache drives. Still not sure as to which enclosure, as I want something quiet, but the Granite's do look interesting.

As far as my handle is concerned, it's just a tag I've used on the net since '91 or so. It also is the name I use when I perform solo etc... too.

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