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 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?
Thanks,
Tim.
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Wed 4 Dec 2002, 17:26
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Hmmm...I know this is an old thread, but I must say it does tickle me to read that some mac musicians had been wondering why they had problems recording/playing back audio when they had been using their internal BOOT drive as their AUDIO drive.... The mac is continuously accessing the system drive for system related read/write to/from memory instructions, and I feel that it ought to be common knowledge that it is definitely not the place to be recording/playing back audio from/to!! It's no wonder users get 'interruptions' in their recordings...the system drive is already busy dealing with the...er...SYSTEM!  I have always had a separate drive for audio...even back in 1996 when drives were not that fast (the problems even more obvious back then.) I can see it now...the audio drive is completely "free from traffic" on it's I/O ribbon cable, whereas there is always a stream of data moving up & down the system drive's I/O ribbon cable..er...ho hum 
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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 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
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