hard drives anyone?

[pikingrin]

I have an e-machines pc, with a nice setup for the money... a 200gb hard drive came installed. I recently got a pretty nice drum sampling program, and in the manual it says that it would be better to have a dedicated hard drive for all of the audio programs, and I guess, have one that is dedicated for the OS. Now, I don't know any of the specs on the HD that's inside the computer, all I know is that it's stock, and it has a 200gb capacity. I am looking for advice here... Should I drop a few bucks, and get a couple of USB hard drives, or would partitioning the biggun work? Now onto specs... if I do end up getting an external hard drive, are there any recommendations? I know the higher the RPM the better, right? Is there anything else to look for? Buffer size, etc? I'm kind of in a bind, so any little info would help!

 

[tracksnflight]

metal gear box

i have a external hard drive encloser its called metal gear box i also have 3 hard drives each 30gb and 2 10 gb i treat this box like a tape deck pop 1 out insert the other some of my artist have thier own harddrives and bring it to the studio we record or we will do a beat on reason and they have the option to take it home and finnish up it only takes me 30 sec to swap the drives its firewire and usb 2.0 its one way to free up data on the main harddrive for smoother running

 

[zekthedeadcow]

partitioning wont do anythng as it's still trying to write the same ammount of data to two platters with 4 heads... you ned a seperate harddrive... which is easier than trying to repartition anyway.

 

[Myriad_Rocker]

You'd be better off (and it would be cheaper) to just install a second HD yourself. Forget USB.

 

[BigRay]

you can get a normal "internal" hard drive and put it in an enclosure for cheap...

I use externals with great success.

 

[pikingrin]

thanks for the info you guys, I just went and got me a new internal this evening. an 80gb western digital for $20.00 brand new!