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> External Hard Drives, Do I really need Glyph?
Tim
post Fri 28 Jun 2002, 00:49
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I'm getting a Powerbook and will be running ProTools LE and Absynth...at least for now. Some guys at a music store I am working with are making me think that I need a Glyph drive for my external hard drive. Now, I do know that i want an external drive, because i don't want to tax the Powerbook drive with the audio I record and playback. But, the Glyph drives are so expensive. I just looked at a Mac Warehouse Catelog and saw 7200 RPM, 80gig firewire drives for a little over $200. Won't this suffice. The 80gig Glyph Companion drive is $500.

Anybody using drives from LaCie, Que, etc? Any problems or rumored problems?

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Tim.
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Stuartpa
post Sun 22 Sep 2002, 22:37
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No doubt about it at all, you can put the exact same drive that Glyph uses in a box with a Power supply and get almost the same performace that you would get from a Glyph.

Glyph do tune their HDs so that they run at max performance for audio work but there are tons of drives out there that will do the job with no problem. Besides if you really want to get into it there are some utilities Like Hard Disk toolkit and others that will also let you tune your drives up this is mostly for SCSI drives (Be careful here as you can also detune a drive real fast)

Having said that use Glyphs ( I am getting old and lazy) but right next to them on the same SCSI bus I also have a couple of Older Drive Kits that I have dragged along with me through several system upgrades and they still work just fine.

You are going to make your CPU work pretty hard no matter what drives you use and getting something because Digi says is ususally just a real good way to spend money you could other wise save.

La Cie make really good drive systems and have been around for years so you might want to give them a call and see what they recommend.

You can also make up a drive yourself if you have the time it is not at all a difficult proposition and you will save some money, but at least a drive from La Cie will be warrantied and you will get support for what you bought.

The 80 G Firewire drive you are looking at will probably work fine as long as you do not try to start laying down 32 tracks all at the same time.
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- Tim   External Hard Drives   Fri 28 Jun 2002, 00:49
- - discostu131   First off, im no expert, and i dont really know wh...   Fri 28 Jun 2002, 18:41
- - lepetitmartien   Hum… Do you really want to put a foot on the ladd...   Sat 29 Jun 2002, 03:11
- - damann   oh yes, a hard drive is a hard drive, a marketing ...   Wed 3 Jul 2002, 02:54
- - rickenbacker   It's not true that every hard disk is exactly ...   Mon 23 Sep 2002, 14:35
- - Synthetic   Stuartpa has a good point. Glyph "tunes...   Mon 23 Sep 2002, 16:51
- - damann   QUOTE (Tim @ Jun 27 2002, 23:49)But, the Glyp...   Mon 23 Sep 2002, 17:10
- - Synthetic   hmm... never new firewire drives were actually ide...   Mon 23 Sep 2002, 19:48
- - damann   hi synthetic, please look into this (i'm sure...   Tue 24 Sep 2002, 01:34
- - rickenbacker   I don't get p*$$ed off with replies ...   Tue 24 Sep 2002, 16:18
- - Presto   Aha! I use an Mbox too. I didn't realise t...   Tue 24 Sep 2002, 19:26
- - damann   hi rickenbacker, just trying to be polite. i'v...   Wed 25 Sep 2002, 00:18
- - Presto   I've been thinking. I'm a bit slow but her...   Wed 25 Sep 2002, 10:01
- - beezkneez   i don't know whether the glyph is better but a...   Wed 25 Sep 2002, 11:42
- - rickenbacker   Hey Damann, Thanks for the tip. I've seen the...   Wed 25 Sep 2002, 15:39
- - damann   hi rickenbacker, the noise is, as with the glyph, ...   Thu 26 Sep 2002, 00:59
- - lepetitmartien   We had already a thread on this… If you really wa...   Thu 26 Sep 2002, 05:01
- - rickenbacker   Thanks, Damann - I'll wait for the new Firewir...   Thu 26 Sep 2002, 10:37
- - truthfind   Just a note to all about an experience that I have...   Thu 26 Sep 2002, 17:04
- - Synthetic   QUOTE Now, let's say you've got 10 Gb free...   Thu 26 Sep 2002, 19:52
- - damann   regarding that last quote. don't use your inte...   Fri 27 Sep 2002, 02:53
- - Presto   "...noticed that some recordings seemed to ha...   Fri 27 Sep 2002, 15:44
- - Synthetic   sometimes its hard to just look at some stats to d...   Fri 27 Sep 2002, 17:07
- - rickenbacker   Synthetic has got it exactly right - home recordis...   Sat 28 Sep 2002, 11:14
- - fromage   Pardon the warming-up of leftovers from the back o...   Mon 2 Dec 2002, 12:31
- - Presto   I've just got an 80Gb MacWay FW Icebox. It...   Mon 2 Dec 2002, 17:36
- - Levon River   If I've posted this before, it bears repeating...   Tue 3 Dec 2002, 01:22
- - Presto   Had a look - as far as I can see and read its the ...   Tue 3 Dec 2002, 12:15
- - Teiwaz   Hmmm...I know this is an old thread, but I must sa...   Wed 4 Dec 2002, 17:26

 

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