Anyone did that successfully? Of course, I mean on 7200rpm drives. I'm considering getting an external 2.5" / 7200 rpm / FW800 solution for my laptop sessions but I'm still hesitant.
Using 2.5" hard drive for recording
- Thread starter Brett - K A L I S I A
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Torniojaws
They call me Juha
The only difference between 3,5" and 2,5" drives is the amount of platters (and therefore size). Otherwise they're identical.
JeffTD
Senhor Testiculo
Why don't you just buy a proper hard drive and stick it in an enclosure? I've found them to be more reliable and it'll likely come out cheaper...
Jeff
Jeff
Got all of that, but wanting to see if 2,5 would work as fine, the whole thing is so much smaller and don't need a power unit to work, so that's pretty tempting.
Erik Monsonis
Member
I'm in the same situation as Brett. I was thinking about a 600GB Lacie HD:
http://dynos.es/Tienda/index.asp?ft...d_articulo=300990EK&f=11&sf=11001&idfab=00077
Anyone had problems with these?
Thanks!
http://dynos.es/Tienda/index.asp?ft...d_articulo=300990EK&f=11&sf=11001&idfab=00077
Anyone had problems with these?
Thanks!
JeffTD
Senhor Testiculo
I'd stay far away from Lacie drives of the bigger capacities, unless they've reworked them. I've got one from 3-4 years ago, a 500gig. It's really just two 250gig HDD's in a RAID 0 format, which is incredibly unreliable. If one fails even just a tiny bit, the whole thing is fucked!
HDD capacities are much higher these days, though, so the 500gig LaCies should be a single HDD.
HDD capacities are much higher these days, though, so the 500gig LaCies should be a single HDD.
The LaCie d2 and Porsche drives are unreliable due to the enclosure's FW bridge. There have been so many reports of this without any action from LaCie it's stupid.
You can remove the disk from the LaCie enclosure and put it in another enclosure and it should work fine. Drives with the Triple Interface usually continue to work via USB after the FW bridge has failed.
You can remove the disk from the LaCie enclosure and put it in another enclosure and it should work fine. Drives with the Triple Interface usually continue to work via USB after the FW bridge has failed.
