Need advice for hard drives

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I want to have a custom computer built. I plan to get two hard drives, so I can use one for audio. First if I'm mainly doing sequencing work, beats, not so much audio recording, do I really need two hard drives? If so how do I configure them? do I need sata drives with RAID or just a couple of IDE drives?
 
2 hDs is always good. If your mobo supports sata, get sata.

Don't worry about raid. Raid0 is not worth the risk
 
If you're going IDE you want ATA 133/7200 drives (if your mobo supports them) Seagate barracudda have a good rep on this forum as do the maxtor drives
 
I read that people have had problems getting SATA drives working in their setup, is it a risky thing for me to get into? should I stick to IDE?
 
never used them mate.

My system...

P4 3.0
Asus P4P 800-e Deluxe
2x 512 DDR 400 Kingmax turbo ram
40 gig Maxtor ATA133/7200 IDE system drive
160 gig Maxtor ATA133/7200 IDE recording drive

I've streamed back over 30 tracks of music in cubase SX full of software effects and my disk usage never goes over 20% the CPU hasn't been over 35%

I'm happy with IDE
 
One of the things I LOVE about my SATA drive is the connecting cable. It's very small and doesn't get in the way, like the IDE connectors I have do. Even though I have round cables for the IDEs, they still have more bulk, are less flexible and positionable, and they still all end in that big 40- or 80-pin connector. The SATA cable ends in a connector that's nice and small, I think it's 4 pins.

I have one of both. I'd like to switch over to SATA completely the next time I get a new drive. I don't really see a difference in performance between them, just ease of connecting, improvements in airflow, and easier access to other components.

The latter comes in handy when you find yourself installing a sound card in a different slot for the 5th time, as I have recently. It could happen to you!! lol

I had a little more trouble setting the SATA drive up, but it came around soon enough. Really wasn't that different; it was mostly because I was used to the ATA standard and how to deal with those drives. They (the SATA models) are probably even easier at this point.

And I have no interest in RAID. That seems risky and unnecessary to me. SATA good, IDE, too. Don't worry with RAID.

Chris
 
Jase said:
First if I'm mainly doing sequencing work, beats, not so much audio recording, do I really need two hard drives?
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No, not really.
 
for an audio scratch drive you don't need anything fancy. Even a 5400 rpm drive is plenty, but 7200rpm drives aren't much more anyways..SATA is pretty cool, but for some reason I couldn't get rid of audio pops using the onboard SATA on my abit nf7-s and delta 66.. once i switched to the ata ports everything started working fine.
 
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