Hard Drives?

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Darren W

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Hi,

Which Hard Drive should I use for my OS and which for Audio?

Western Digital Raptor 80GB SATA 10KRPM 16MB Cache

Seagate 250GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Cache

Thanks for your help.

Darren
 
I've always been told to use the fastest drive for OS. Use the 80g for OS and the 250G for audio.
 
I would put the OS on the 80 also, for one it's faster, for two, audio takes a lot of room. 80GB for Audio won't cut it.
 
I've been told lately from all my friends that do IT to stay away from western digital drives.
 
ndutle said:
I've been told lately from all my friends that do IT to stay away from western digital drives.
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Another good reason to go with OS on the 80g. If it goes down, you won't lose all you recordings!
 
Realy don't wanna hijack this but USB hard drives...can they be used to record to? I was under the impression they're more suited to archiving.
 
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ndutle said:
I've been told lately from all my friends that do IT to stay away from western digital drives.
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I've been original in that frame of thought, until I purchased their newer drives (2 150gb 10K rpm drives & 2 74GB 10K RPM drives - WD Raptor) They run pretty good.
 
TelePaul said:
Realy don't wanna hijack this but USB hard drives...can they be used to record to? I was under the impression they're more suited to archiving.
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It's possible, but firewire external drives are better in that application. I personally wouldn't unless I had to use a laptop to record. If you're using a laptop, it might even be preferable.
 
mikemorgan said:
It's possible, but firewire external drives are better in that application. I personally wouldn't unless I had to use a laptop to record. If you're using a laptop, it might even be preferable.
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Hmm I'm using a desktop...I think I'll to talk to the computer guy up the road, he was helping me out with RAM today. Thanks Mike.
 
I've never had any problems with WD hard drives. I usually stick to Maxtor because every drive I've ever used from them never failed or had problems.

I've used a 40, 80, and 160 GB Western Digital with no problems.
 
Mindset said:
I've been original in that frame of thought, until I purchased their newer drives (2 150gb 10K rpm drives & 2 74GB 10K RPM drives - WD Raptor) They run pretty good.
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I think the issue is reliability. They may run fine NOW..... :D
Then again, I haven't had a WD drive fail on me recently, so.....
 
I have one(>>>1<<<) 36g WD Raptor. My OS, and everything else is on it. I surf the net, then record. Never had any issues.

When the drive starts to get full, I back stuff up to a dvd.
 
I've always used WD drives and never had a problem, but if you are so afraid of one failing why not look into setting up a raid? I've never set one up myself, I just know it can be a good way to protect your data in case your drive fails. I've heard the raptor drives fail more frequently than drives that run slower, but again I'm just talking from what I've heard, not personally experienced
 
Western Digitals seem as good as the other drives, so long as the other is seagate (maxtor is no longer, and has been obsorbed by seagate). Stick with either and you will be fine, though the raptors are loud, and of the whole bunch seagate are supposedly the quietest.
 
I like seagates, they never done me wrong, and now they use perpendicular read/write. They were really quiet. I now run 2 74gb raptors on RAID 0, and 2 150gb raptors on raid 1
 
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