Hows this drive for recording??

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Hi. I was looking around E-bay and found this drive for $30.00 and I was wondering if it would be good for recording?

It is a:
IBM ide 3.2 gig hard drive model daqa-33240 p/n 46h3432 16 head drive

Do any of you know of it?? Would it be better than my 1 gig
 
I have found from recording straight to a PC that the more Hard Drive space you have, the better. (I still do not have enough)
 
Fishmed's right on the money. I've used a very similar drive (a WD3.2GB IDE) as my audio HD (in conjunction with a 1GB HD for other stuff) and it was always too small and too slow. As long as you work on only one CD project at a time, it can be made to work, but it probably doesn't have the speed to support a lot of simultaneous tracks. This will also depend on your CPU and your MB and IDE interface. Also make sure that your BIOS can support HDs larger than 2GB. (that 1GB drive was the tip-off for me) Otherwise, you'll have to use a software patch to make it work and this will slow down your transfer speed.

[This message has been edited by drstawl (edited 10-01-1999).]
 
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