I think I put together a very fast ext hd setup for my laptop...

[anppilot]

I am buying Reason 3.0 for my HP laptop. I am upgrading the internal HD of my laptop to a:

HD = Seagate Momentus 7200.1 ST910021A 100GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146230

RAM = and upgrading to 1GB of RAM with 2 Crucial Technology 512MB 200-Pin DDR SO-DIMM DDR 333 (PC 2700) Notebook Memory - OEM :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145502

I figured I needed to upgrade the laptop at the same time as buying my ext hd for Reason.

But anyway, here is what I speced out for a ext hd:

1. Adaptec 1932800 IEEE 1394 PCMCIA Card 3 x IEEE 1394
2. Adaptec 2188800 Aluminum 3.5" USB + IEEE1394 External Enclosure
3. Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

So when I'm done, I'll have:

LAPTOP:
1. 1.8GHZ AMD Sempron
2. 1GB DDR 333 PC-2700 RAM
3. 7200 RPM, 100GB Hard drive

EXTERNAL HD:
1. PCMCIA firewire card
2. 10,000 RPM Western Digital Hard Drive

M-AUDIO Oxygen-8 V.2

What do you think about this setup? Should I have any latency problems?

 

[altitude909]

I dont think reason is that disk intensive so i dont think it will make that much difference

 

[anppilot]

I wanted to get a faster and bigger hard drive anyway, I have about 16,000 emulator roms on my laptop (atari 2600, 5200, 7800, lynx, colecovision, intellivision, mame, nes, snes, n64, sega, sega genesis, gamegear, c-64) and alot of mp3-s (6500 total) on there.

It's my all purpose time killer. I fly alot from dallas to nyc, and I get stuck in atlanto alot. Games and music only go so far. I bought a oxygen-8 v.2 and I'd love to start making tracks while waiting. So the memory gain (1GB DDR RAM) and 100 GB 7200 RPM will make the laptop fly.

So I figured overkill on the external hd would be great for Reason to stream samples from.