Recording on flash drive?

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Alot of talk about using an external drive to record on, rather than C:/ I was wondering. Can you use a flash drive? seems it would be more reliable since there are no moving parts
 
As long as it is USB 2.0 or higher, you should have no problem.
 
mjbphotos said:
As long as it is USB 2.0 or higher, you should have no problem.
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Interesting I haven't tried it but for running a few different ones on the RME direct usb recording.. I presume it would be similar to that. Apparently the drive can matter as the track counts go up.
Here's a thread that may be relevant.. Card readers, pen' drives, after quite a lot of round and rounds' (and failures) success in post 95..
USB recording media recommendation for UFX - pen drives etc. (Page 2)
 
More reliable how? Flash drives die all the time... and being small they're much easier to break and/or lose.
 
guitarpat said:
Alot of talk about using an external drive to record on, rather than C:/ I was wondering. Can you use a flash drive? seems it would be more reliable since there are no moving parts
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I wouldn't - not reliable enough.

Also, I have heard of occasional glitches because the flash drive tries to "talk" to what it's plugged into and causes an audio glitch at that point.

A solid state hard drive is different - those are OK - but USB sticks -NO!
 
Notably, many of the "computerless" recording interfaces such as the 16 track A&H jobbie will only record at 16bits to a flash drive but 24bits to a hard drive.

I once put Reaper on a flash drive and recorded with a Berry UCA202 on a computer that I had no admin rights to. Couldn't even install Audacity or the drivers for my Fast track pro. The 202 uses generic drivers so that was ok!

Dave.
 
I straight answer will be hard to come by because of the massive range of performance available with flash drives.
I've had USB flash drives that made me nostalgic about floppy discs. :facepalm:

The real answer is to benchtest the drive, or just try it and see if it's up to the job.
 
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