If you have an external drive you use for audio, is it FW or USB? You can vote for both if you have both as well.
Who is using an external audio drive - firewire or USB
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Strachan of D
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i use a seagate black armour ws10 or something it a usb and esata drive . i use the usb on the macs in college , ive had no problems with it at all
jipchen
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Glyph GT050Q (Firewire)
It's fucking FAST. And it didn't fuck anything up since I bought it. Not a single drop-out. *knocks on wood*
It's fucking FAST. And it didn't fuck anything up since I bought it. Not a single drop-out. *knocks on wood*
Im probably part of the minority since I use usb, but I absolutely love my audio drive. I dont remember the specs (Ill post them after work) but I think its just some custom drive that someone put in a rocketfish enclosure. All I can remember off the top of my head is it is 500GB, 7200 rpm, and I believe 32MB cache....plus it has 3 usb ports and an sd card slot!
It may not hold a candle to what some of you guys are using, but it is as fast as I could hope for and it has never let me down.
It may not hold a candle to what some of you guys are using, but it is as fast as I could hope for and it has never let me down.
That wasn't the question...
Just taking a poll of who uses what, not specifics - just if you use an external FW or USB drive, or both.
I went with usb because it was the cheapest, however I'd rather use my macbook pro's firewire with a sound card.
Both, depends if I am working on a mac or PC. I have a 7200 rpm external 1tb hard drive where all my sessions are also in, which has USB and Firewire, so I am always good to go.
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AdamWathan
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With most current laptops I would honestly rather use USB. The quality of the FireWire chipsets in every non-Apple off the shelf laptop right now is so shitty I wouldn't trust anything to it. A friend took a chance on a new Sony VAIO laptop today because it was the only laptop at Future Shop with FireWire and guess what? Can't play back a single track for more than 15 seconds before it locks up. No way I would trust even a hard drive on those shitty chipsets.
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That wasn't the question...
Just taking a poll of who uses what, not specifics - just if you use an external FW or USB drive, or both.
Actually I'm wondering why you don't have eSata in there as well if you're polling about external drives. I have eSata ports on both my studio computers and it's becoming increasingly common on laptops as well.
(Edited for a minor thing)
vespiz
Mixing!
No problems with our external USB HD. Internal HDs (SATA, IDE) don't play nice with PT, for some reason..
Off topic....but
I had a similar problem on my livetracker laptol when I first got my mackie onyx. I downloaded DPC latency checker and noticed I was getting huge spikes quite often and it would cause my DAW to totally dropout. After a ton of trial and error I solved the problem by disabling the process that is responsible for showing the battery life. I know it sounds completely crazy, but that is the only thing that worked. Now I cant see how much battery life is left, but I rarely use the laptop unplugged.
grywolf627
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