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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 25 Sep 2002, 10:01
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I've been thinking. I'm a bit slow but here's my reasoning.
With the 80Gb disk, according to zzounds, you can record 280 minutes of 24-track, 24-bit audio at 48kHz. This means you can record 56 hours with the 2-track Mbox, or 14 hours with an 8-track Motu 828 - all in one go.
(The 80Gb M Project Plus from Glyph has a 4-port FW hub, so if you have three 828s, you can do 24-track recording. But then, you're not worried about Glyph prices, are you?)
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.
My conclusion is that for recording with an Mbox or 828, your external drive needs to be neither portable nor silent, as you don't need to use it for live recording.
I therefore opt for a not as portable, noisier, not matching, but much cheaper, other-than-Glyph drive.
Is there a flaw?
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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 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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