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Anonymous   05-25-2005 at 12:09:22 PM

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I want to buy an external firewire/usb drive. I use the mac and am
planning on doing some location recording with a powerbook g4. Anything
I need to watch out for? Recommendations?
thanks
Steve

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Anonymous   05-25-2005 at 05:26:28 PM
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In article <1117026562.525855.155800@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> s.echols2@verizon.net writes:

> I want to buy an external firewire/usb drive. I use the mac and am
> planning on doing some location recording with a powerbook g4. Anything
> I need to watch out for?

A compatible chipset in the Firewire adapter. But you won't know it
isn't until you try it.

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Anonymous   05-25-2005 at 04:48:06 PM
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Hi.
Any of the Quantegy drives work well. Lots of people use Lacie drives
too, I haven't used them for long but I had no trouble doing 24 of so
tracks onto either of them. The G4 powerbook has Firewire 400 as far as
I know, so the extra expense of an 800 drive isn't worth it. The 800
interface is faster and the connections seem to fit better.
I think the chipset being refered to is called an Oxford 911 chipset
but I couldn't be 100% on that.
Whatever you use BACK IT UP before you leave the gig... Most firewire
drives seem to be IDE inside anyway...

All the best.
DS

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Anonymous   05-25-2005 at 04:54:34 PM
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In article <1117026562.525855.155800@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Echols <s.echols2@verizon.net> wrote:

> I want to buy an external firewire/usb drive. I use the mac and am
> planning on doing some location recording with a powerbook g4. Anything
> I need to watch out for? Recommendations?
> thanks
> Steve
>

If your planning to record lots of audio tracks, you might consider the
fastest possible HD, such as an SATA 10,000 rpm drive (like a Raptor)
in an external firewire 800 enclosure. That'll limit you to about 70GB.
and cost you around $500

If your tracking is more conservative, then a good 7,200 rpm drive
would be fine, such as a LaCie or Maxtor. You then can get a less
expensive drive with hundreds of GB. for $150 and up

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Anonymous   05-26-2005 at 03:24:30 AM
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On Wed, 25 May 2005 15:09:22 +0200, Echols wrote:

> I want to buy an external firewire/usb drive. I use the mac and am
> planning on doing some location recording with a powerbook g4. Anything
> I need to watch out for? Recommendations? thanks Steve

I recently bought a Maxtor 250GB usb/firewire disk. I've had no problems
with Win86, WinXP or Linux. The drive is quite fast >20MB/sec writing to
file under Linux.
No long time experience yet, but first impression is good.

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Anonymous   05-25-2005 at 09:37:36 PM
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Thanks all
Steve

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Anonymous   05-25-2005 at 09:44:59 PM
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Echols
which mac are you using?
powerbook (al or ti) ibook?
what interface are you using for audio?
protools has recomendations for using an oxford chipset.
metric halo recommends using a seperate card for interfacing a seperate
external harddrive.(all the existing firewire ports are on the same
bus).
you could buy a firewire enclosure which allows you to swap out
multiple hard drives.

dale

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