7200 rpm Audio Dedicated HDD

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Any doos and don't that you guys might have for me would be of great appreciation at the moment. I am planning on going out and buying a new HDD for my .wav files.

I have heard things about Maxtor and Western Digital, but those are the only two companies that I know. Which 7200 HDD is considered to be best for audio?

Also, I have heard that yes... size does matter. Someone told me that an 80 GB HDD, even though it is 7200 rpm, would be slow because it is simply so big. Is this true? Or should I literally go for the killer and get as big as I can find?

Mike
 
Check out this thread
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=35958

To answer your question, yes, an 80gb drive may be a hair slower, but you could partition it to speed it back up. However, as you'll see in the thread above, even if you don't partition it, you'll still be plenty fast enough for audio (just make sure you defragment often).
 
I read that one

Thanks,

I did read that thread which prompted me to start this one about companies. Which is a good company? Or maybe it is easier to ask... is there a BAD one?
 
I used to have trouble with some of the old Seagates, but that was long ago. I can tell you I have had good experiences (no problems in 2+ years) with Western Digital, Maxstor, and IBM (SCSI).
 
I also had some bad experiances with old drives from Seagate (we used to call them Seadogs) but the newer ones seem fine, their Baracuda drives get pretty good reveiws. I usually buy Maxtor drives myself. However, most any drives for sale today are pretty reliable, I don't think there is such a thing as a "best" drive for audio
 
I have a couple IT friends who do support at a major us corporation and they never have anything good to say about Western Digital drives. They're always swapping dead ones out at work to be replaced.

My votes go to Maxtor and IBM.
 
I think a 20 or 30 GB Maxtor Diamond Max Plus is the way to go....well under $100....if you need more storage space go with yet another drive....some may disagree with that, but oh well.....

Western Digital..bad....I bought one to try and use for digital audio recording and had nothing but problems....i use it now to store porn on my internet computer.......
 
Gidge: How many pictures of Ed can you fit on that WD?

I'm partial to IBM Deskstars.
 
I have the drive partitioned into 4....1 for erotic stories about Ed......1 for Ed jpegs, 1 for ed mpegs, 1 for regular porn......

BTW, i havent seen that bitch around here in a few weeks..hes probably lurking under a different name checking up on me......
 
If you are thinking about getting a hard drive, DO NOT GET an IBM 75gxp drive. There is something mechanically wrong with them that causes them to prematurely fail. I have heard that there is even a lawsuit pending because of the number of failed drives.

Go for a Maxtor or an IBM 60gxp.
 
I have 2 30GB maxtor diamondmax plus 60'S..they work awesome..I'm switching over to 2 80GB Western digital caviars..they are slighty lower speed than the maxtors..but are quieter and create less heat..Most harddrives right now seem to have low return rates except for those IBM GXP 75's that someone stated already..watch out for those ones..
Read some reviews over at www.tomshardware.com
there are some very good comparisons, benches, and all sorts of other info..
The only thing I dont like about current harddrives is how misleading the displayed sizes are..My 80GB formats to 74.5GB ..thats a whole 5.5GB I don't get
 
Try getting the fastest possible drive, and make it big enough (40 GB). SCSI drives are the fastest (but smaller), and naturaly the most expensive ones. If you can't afford SCSI, go for a drive that has 7200 rpm, and 8 or 8,5 ms sustained transfer rate.
 
7200 or 10,000 rpm???

I just saw a Maxtor Atlas 10k III Hard Disk. Now this thing claims to be the fasters and quietest 10,000 rpm HDD on the market. Now, can anyone tell me the pros and cons of getting a 7200 or a 10,000 rpm HDD? Is the 10,000 rpm'er supposed to just be really too loud for recording? I have never payed that much attention to that great of a details as far as room ambiance is concerned. I have been having far too many troubles just getting everything to work together, mush less start worrying about HDD noise levels. I am trying to build up my Pent III 933 MHz 128 MB RAM PC to a 512 MB RAM fast ass HDD DAW. However, I do not want to go out and get a 7200 rpm HDD if there will be super fast 10,000 HDD in 6 months. The 10,000 rpm'er are still quite expensive as far as I have researched (which is admitadly not so much) so I also was wondering if you guys predict a nose dive in prices for High Performance HDDs?

Thanks a million guys,
Mike
 
Shit... I always forget something....

Oh yeah...

What is the difference between IDE/ATA and SCSI hard drives? The new Maxtor Atlas 10K III is a SCSI hard drive. Does that mean that it is external and connects via a SCSI port? I am not real sure what EXACTLY SCSI was invented for and what it does. I know that it means Small Computer System of Interface and is pronounced (Skuzzy), but that is about all I know about it. I am not even sure that I have a SCSI port on the back of my computer? I have a printer connector... is that something COMPLETELY different?
 
I promise....

I promise that I am not just trying some stunt to drive up my thread count. I just forgot another thing.... What is the difference between all the different types of RAM (i.e. SDRAM, DRAM, blah blah blah). What do I need to buy?
 
Yup, that's different. Most systems don't have a SCSI rite out of the box. SCSI HD's use their own SCSI interface card (I've never seen one on the motherboard). They can be expensive, too. The HD connects to the card with a cable inside the box.
 
PCI???

Do you mean that I would have to open the computer up and insert a board into a PCI slot and then there would be one of those wide multi-pinned connectors on the back of my computer that would connect the HDD to the computer via some PCI slot, like installing a sound card or a modem?
 
You put a so called SCSI controller card into a PCI slot and connect the HDD to that PCI card. All internally. Some (most/all?) SCSI controller cards also have a connector on the plate (like for example the output of graphics card) to which you can connect external SCSI devices but you don't need to use external HDDs to use SCSI.

However, for a DAW, there's no use to use SCSI. There's really no performance gain from using SCSI in a DAW. It's basically just more expensive and noisy.

/Ola
 
Actualy what is IDE and ATA, how do they relate to speed? What do you guys think of Seagate?
 
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