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Firewire Hd: 400 Or 800?!?, External hard drive

kd_rome View Member Profile	Sun 5 Dec 2004, 17:40 Post #1
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 07-Apr 04 From: Fairfax - US Member No.: 40,383	Hi guys! I need to buy an external hard drive to use with Protools and my powerbook 17" 1.5 GHz. I would like to know what do you think about the differences between a LaCie Big Disk Extreme 320GB with a Firewire 800 - Oxford 912-8Mb and a Maxtor OneTouch™ II - 300GB with a Firewire 400 - Oxford 911-16 Mb. Everytime a read a review it's always about people that use the hd for pro video/photo, I would like to know something about the ProAudio needs. Thanks!

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ourmanflinty View Member Profile	Mon 6 Dec 2004, 18:33 Post #2
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 191 Joined: 17-Aug 04 From: London - UK Member No.: 48,982	don't forget that you won't get any more tracks onto a fw800 drive than a fw400...it's the spin speed that counts, more tracks onto a 10,000 rpm than a 7200 rpm...you can strap at least 3 drives on a fw400 bus and max them all out track count wise before the bus gets too full... -------------------- Simon Flinn Install & Support Eng, Maintenance, Analog & Digi Electronics Dist/Dlr background, Fast & Friendly, London & SE Based. freelance studio support click here

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kd_rome Firewire Hd: 400 Or 800?!? Sun 5 Dec 2004, 17:40

Nels For both audio and video, you'll want the fast... Sun 5 Dec 2004, 18:36

kd_rome Thanks for the answer! So you suggest the trip... Sun 5 Dec 2004, 19:09

Nels If you feel you'd need to have the 3 options(U... Sun 5 Dec 2004, 22:16

lepetitmartien Uh… USB2 is just on paper a little better than FW4... Sun 5 Dec 2004, 22:16

kd_rome I liked your answer, pretty clear and it's wha... Sun 5 Dec 2004, 22:27

Nels Yes, it can all be so confusing. One definite thi... Mon 6 Dec 2004, 17:31

kd_rome Yeah Nels, I posted the same question on the Digid... Mon 6 Dec 2004, 17:36

ourmanflinty don't forget that you won't get any more t... Mon 6 Dec 2004, 18:33

CanadaRAM QUOTE (kd_rome @ Dec 6 2004, 16:36)I was ceck... Wed 8 Dec 2004, 07:07

Nels Trevor, Just had to commend you on your concise e... Wed 8 Dec 2004, 08:20

ourmanflinty well, do the maths. real world sustained 32meg / s... Thu 9 Dec 2004, 15:48

ourmanflinty umm, one big file as in the barefeats tests shown ... Thu 9 Dec 2004, 21:45

Vincent Online Hmmm I appreciate this thred... I've having so... Thu 9 Dec 2004, 22:39

ourmanflinty You need to find out where the problem is, try goi... Fri 10 Dec 2004, 00:06

Vincent Online QUOTE (ourmanflinty @ Dec 9 2004, 23:06)You n... Fri 10 Dec 2004, 02:34

ourmanflinty bogs down pretty quick, any details? how many trac... Fri 10 Dec 2004, 14:28

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