10000 rpm Hard drive recomendations?

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Right now I have a 300gb hd 7200rpm that is partitioned.
I have begin tapping it out pretty hard since switching to 24 bit recording.
I am pondering getting a 10000 rpm drive, sata I think. Wondering if anyone has any bang for buck recomendations. Want to be pretty quite if possible.

Also considered that just adding a 7200 rpm drive to get my files off the main drive might speed things up. Not sure though. If anyone has been down that route I'd like to hear how it went.

Thanks alot

F.S.
 
Yep, Raptors are pretty much the standard for consumer HDs but the highest you're gonna see is around 150GB. If you want to go higher you may want to look into Ultra320 SCSI, but it will get expensive very quick.
 
I thought it would be a good idea to keep your recording drive smaller in size to increase read times. Less data to sort through, more efficient reads?
 
Seagate 7200RPM SATA2 Perpindicular drives. Thats what we use in everything and they handle anything our major clients throw at it. Easily 70-80 tracks at 24/48. If you need more, throw 2 into a RAID0. Still better than a limited space, extremely hot, very noisy Raptor. I hate those drives.
 
I wouldn't mind having a couple seagate cheatah's 15k's or fujitsu max 15k's:eek:
 
I guess if you have a machine room thats isolated very well. You're not ever going to be able to record in the same room with those drives. Even with one of those overpriced "silent" cases.
 
I've had a 10k rpm, 36g Raptor in my recording rig for a few years, never had any trouble. The drive is the most quiet one I've ever owned, too.

After I'm done with a song, I back all files to dvd and remove from the HD.
 
well you've all given me alot to think about. I am thinking that I will go the cheap route for now and get a seperate 7200 drive for the audio files. I figure that has got to help quite a bit just having the operating system and sonar on a seperate drive. If it doesn't take care of things I will put some more money into it later. I am trying to save up for a new board and don't want to spend any more than I have to.

Thanks for all the input guys!

F.S.
 
Definitely go with a raptor man. I have two 74gb in raid0 and although they can get a little on the loud side when I'm gaming or something, they never get louder than my system as it is normally with 4 fans and a larger size graphics card yknow?
Plus, in terms of durability and performance, I wouldn't go any further than WD.. they make the best drives I've ever used.. and coming from a PC technician, what I say comes from experience :)
 
First mistake is running a partitioned drive.

The time it takes for the heads to move back and forth between partitions whenever the OS or applications need to access the disk and THEN move back to recording or reading your tracks at another place on the disk is very very very bad.

You don't want ANYTHING to interrupt the data flow of your tracks.

Best Way -- Separate drives for:
OS and applications
Audio Files and misc. data
Sample libraries (if you use them)

Standard 7200rpm drives will do and will stream upwards of 100 tracks.
NO PARTITIONS.
You don't need exotic 10,000rpm drives.
 
TimOBrien said:
First mistake is running a partitioned drive.

The time it takes for the heads to move back and forth between partitions whenever the OS or applications need to access the disk and THEN move back to recording or reading your tracks at another place on the disk is very very very bad.

You don't want ANYTHING to interrupt the data flow of your tracks.

Best Way -- Separate drives for:
OS and applications
Audio Files and misc. data
Sample libraries (if you use them)

Standard 7200rpm drives will do and will stream upwards of 100 tracks.
NO PARTITIONS.
You don't need exotic 10,000rpm drives.
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Ya that's pretty much what I'm thinking. The computer came partitioned and I just never changed it but, lately it's been getting tapped out and it's not from track count either. Far as I can tell it's the applications. I've dealt with way more tracks than one song I am working with that is giving me issues and never had a problem at all. The only thing that has changed are the applications.

thanks again guys.

F.S.
 
wreckd504 said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/15/the_spring_hard_drive_guide/

Toms harwdware sping hard drive guide if you're interested
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Thanks. I have found some recomendations for quietest drives and I think that's where I'm going. When you look at some places they only give you one seek time, while others give you normal & cached. The ones that only give one time look like they are giving you cached but, don't say it. At least it's my impression they are being a bit sneeky.


F.S.
 
I have two 160gig 7200 WD (one for os and one for tunes) and never have an issue recording. The most tracks Ive done has been 16 at a time. Anyone ever go to Best Buy and oogle those new 500gig and 750 gig perp. drives :).
Man, I thing Im gonna go get one tomorrow. Get my PC Junkie fix. No wonder Best Buy loves me. Its a new drive or video card every 6 months. And new CPU and Motherboard every 18 months from NewEgg
 
I agree with the advice about not partitioning drives that are being used for audio recording. Also, I've read that using multiple smaller drives is actually better than single massively large drives.
 
well I think I will go with this http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=83

It's cheap, quiet and has great ratings.

I can't ever see having enough projects on at once to fill it up.
I can also use the extra space on my 300gb drive to back up to and I already have a 100gb external that I copy my project folder to when ever I think about it.

F.S.
 
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