I have an HP Pavilion ze4400 laptop with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.05Ghz processor and 384MB of RAM. It has a 37.2GB hard drive. I am using Sonar 2.0XL. I have an M-Audio Audiophile USB external audio card.
I have USB 2.0 PCMCIA card port which I run the Audiophile through and I'm wondering if an external hard drive would work with this setup. That way I can keep all my audio files on the external hard drive and make CDROM backups.
I see alot of external hard drive "enclosures" for USB. However, I'm confused as to whether an external USB hard drive would be better than say, buying an 80 or 120GB IDE drive and putting it into a USB enclosure. What are the minimum specs I would be looking for in an external (or internal in an enclosure) hard drive in terms of RPM and minimum access times?
I have USB 2.0 PCMCIA card port which I run the Audiophile through and I'm wondering if an external hard drive would work with this setup. That way I can keep all my audio files on the external hard drive and make CDROM backups.
I see alot of external hard drive "enclosures" for USB. However, I'm confused as to whether an external USB hard drive would be better than say, buying an 80 or 120GB IDE drive and putting it into a USB enclosure. What are the minimum specs I would be looking for in an external (or internal in an enclosure) hard drive in terms of RPM and minimum access times?