Hard Drive Wth 003 R, Combo 800/400 FW Options

[canoleguer]

Hello!
Anybody to advise me for buy a HardDrive to connect 003 Rack (FW400) to macBook Pro 10.6.4 (FW800)??

It's recommended an external one 3'5, 7200rpm, and Combo (FW800x2 and usb 2.0)?

anymore?

thanks a lot for your suggestions

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This post has been edited by canoleguer: Mon 30 Aug 2010, 09:40

[kayj_prod]

Anything at the Apple Store will cost you more than if you buy it somewhere else. USB3 won't be an option as the MBP won't support it anyway. Although USB2 appears faster than FW400, for music use- that's is, writing/reading long streams of data- it isn't as it sends data in packets rather than in a continuous stream.

A FW800 drive will probably cost a little more than an equivalent 400 and I think Im right in saying the 003 has 400 ports anyway. I imagine you have your MBP hooked up to your 003 via a 800 to 400 cable. You aren't really going to notice any advantage with 800 unless you're recording tens and tens of tracks at 24bit, 96K! SSD drives have little advantage for recording but if you're using massive sample libraries then they can be.

Get a fast (9000 RPM+) FW400 3.5" drive from any reputable manufacturer such as Lacie, Seagate,. Western Digital and you'll be fine.