Laptop hard drive for recording?

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Howdy, I have a laptop that I am planning on using for recording. It has a 10 gig in it. I want to get something bigger, but I am not sure what the best option is.
#1 Buy a larger harddrive for my laptop
#2 Buy an external 7200 hard drive.

I am afraid the onboard hard drive will be too slow, but I am not sure how well the externals work either (I have been told they can only be used for storage and not as a bootable drive). Please let me know of any suggestions. Thanks
 
I agree with the desktop PC thing. USB drives will be too slow.
 
Thanks for the advise, but I need the portability of the laptop. I am currently a University student and will be doing a fair bit of travelling where I won 't have much room to take things. I just need to know if the internal hard drives will work for a laptop or if a external would be faster or work better.
 
actually I use my laptop quite well for recording. I have a MOTU 828 with a firewire cardbus card. My firewire card has two inputs and I use a 7200 rpm firewire hard drive along with the 828. If you want to get a really stable drive get one of the new glyph hard drive. I've never used them but they are recommended. I have a VST 20 gig firewire drive and it is ok but I had stability issues at first. You may need to get two firewire interfaces for optimum performance. My portable studio is a lot of fun and I just add a mixer for more options in the studio.
 
also the internal 4500 speed hard drives work fine for four to six tracks.
 
My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5000e, about a year old, 750mhz P3, 512mb Ram and a 30-ish gig internal hard drive.

win98 lite
vx pocket and wami box pcmcia soundcards

I am currently mixing a song in Logic Platinum with 9 stereo tracks 48khz 24 bit. All waves are about 4 mins long

I have 20 logic plug ins enabled:

8 compressors
8 fat eqs
1 each of gainer, chorus, silver verb and platinum verb

I get an ASIO error first time I play back but after that it's fine - the point is you can get a reaonable performance from a laptop, I've done every tweek I can find and I have it partitoned for audio, large clusters etc - I'm happy with it, and i know i can get more tracks for less plug ins, it'll never compete with a desktop, but can still be very usable for recording music....

cp.
 
laptop tweaks?

hey cp,

can you tell me what tweaks you did to your laptop? i'm completely new to pc recording.

thanks!

tony
 
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