Newbie Hard Drive Question, Which second drive to buy for G4 Options

[pashalifi]

I'm new to using Logic, recording my band's album on there now and I've been advised to get a second hard disk for the recorded audio. My questions are: should I buy an internal ATA or an external Firewire? Do I run Logic from the startup drive, and save all Logic & audio files to the second disk? And how much Ram should I get - I have 256 now, in 2 sockets, would I be ok with another 512, or should I scrap one of the 128s in there now and install two 512s?

I have an old G4, single processor, 433mghz, OS 9.1 (hopefully upgrading to X soon), Firewire sockets, Logic 4.8 (again, hopefully upgrading soon). I know this is very basic information I'm asking for, but I hope someone can help me out?

[eric_berlin]

<<should I buy an internal ATA or an external Firewire?>>
definetely an internal ATA for your audio files + an external Firewire for back-up

<<Do I run Logic from the startup drive, and save all Logic & audio files to the second disk?>>
yes... you can also keep your logic files on drive one
all audio files connected to your sessions should be on drive 2
optimize your drive as often as possible

<<And how much Ram should I get - I have 256 now, in 2 sockets, would I be ok with another 512, or should I scrap one of the 128s in there now and install two 512s?>>
the more ram you have in your computer, better it will fell. means go for 1 Gb (2x512) if you can

best,
eric

[pashalifi]

thanks very much, that's cleared it up for me!