Newbie needs Help! Need info on Hard Drives for recording.

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dune5233

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I'm looking to buy a hard drive to record but am confused about what to get. I was looking at some of the Glyph stuff but was wondering if it is worth the price? I mean what the difference from a regular firewire drive like this?

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=965972

And a Glyph firewire drive like this?

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7...4001532113/search/g=home/detail/base_id/58216


I'm looking to record at lease 24 tracks at 24bit/48k with at lease 8 tracks recording at the same time but I might want to move up to recording 16 tracks at the same time

can anyone help me?

Just in case you need to know what I am using to record I have a MOTU 828 in to a Mac G4 466mhz running Cubase VST/32 5.1
with 1.25 GB of RAM
 
The only reason you should even be looking at Firewire drives is if you need portability, or perhaps if you don't have any more room at all in your case. If you those aren't issues, then I'd look at either a Maxtor or Western Digital drive with a 7200rpm spindle speed.
 
So if I got a regular IDE internal hard drive running at 7200rpm
I would be ok for what I want to do? Would it cause a problem if I had two internal hard drives? One for just software and another for just files.
 
dune5233 said:
So if I got a regular IDE internal hard drive running at 7200rpm
I would be ok for what I want to do? Would it cause a problem if I had two internal hard drives? One for just software and another for just files.
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You need to check the recs for Digital Performer or Protools or whatever else you are using. However a 7200 rpm IDE hard drive, or two of them, is sufficient for 90 percent of project studio applications. I highly recommend Seagate 7200 rpm drives as they are much quieter than anything else out there.

Steve
www.piemusic.com
 
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You can also get 7200RPM drives that work in a firewire chassis. You can even hotswap the drives. The main thing is getting a drive that has the higher RPM. IDE or Firewire is somewhat irrelevant.
 
Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY A 5400 RPM, only 7200 RPM.
and try to get the smallest seek time you can, usually are about 8. Just suggestions.
-DAN
 
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