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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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post Thu 26 Sep 2002, 19:52
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Now, let's say you've got 10 Gb free on the internal drive. With that, you can go out without your external drive and record 7 hours of 2-track, or nearly 2 hours of 8-track. You can then come back and put it on your external and go out and start again.


Presto... i think you are missing the point here... the point is to avoid using the internal HD for recording purposes if at all possible because it's not really best suited for A/V work and its best not to use the same drive for recording that also is running your system and software. Yes it will work and you can do exactly what you described but for best results... an external drive (like the ones mentioned in the many numerous previous posts) will provide longer life and better quality overall.

My example... even though I have room on my Tibook HD to record... i avoid this and rely on using my Glyph Project X firewire drive for recording. If I must travel... its not big deal to bring it along since its not that big (bigger than the Mbox companion maybe) and its great being able to share it with my G3 desktop model at home. Before the Glyph, I relied on a SCSI card and a Lacie Tsunami 9gig drive for my recordings until it developed a bad sector and went to trash. I had tried recording on the internal 6gig drive that was in G3 when I first got the Digi001 and noticed that some recordings seemed to have minor skips or "hicups" in the some tracks especially if I tried to record 24bit. sad.gif


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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
- - Stuartpa   No doubt about it at all, you can put the exact sa...   Sun 22 Sep 2002, 22:37
- - 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
- - 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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