Favourite hard drive for audio?

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I know this has been discussed before, but these things change faster
than socks so I figure it's worth asking again:

Anybody have an absolute "go to" hard drive choice these days? I'm
looking for the fastest, quietest, most reliable 200GB drive I can get
my hands on.

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"It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!"
- Lorin David Schultz
in the control room
making even bad news sound good

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SCSI? IDE? SATA?

I've had good luck with the Western Digital 8MB cache units over the
years.

Check out:

www.storagereview.com

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Lorin David Schultz wrote:
> I know this has been discussed before, but these things change faster
> than socks so I figure it's worth asking again:
>
> Anybody have an absolute "go to" hard drive choice these days? I'm
> looking for the fastest, quietest, most reliable 200GB drive I can get
> my hands on.

If low noise is a high priority, Samsung Spinpoint seem to be well ahead
of the competition. The SpinPoint P series are 200Gb and 250Gb, 7200rpm.

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"Lorin David Schultz" <Lorin@DAMNSPAM!v5v.ca> wrote:
>
> Anybody have an absolute "go to" hard drive choice these days? I'm
> looking for the fastest, quietest, most reliable 200GB drive I can
> get my hands on.



Sorry, I had a "duh" moment when writing that. I need one SATA and one
IDE/ATA. My SCSI days are behind me.

Thanks!
Lorin

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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:43:10 GMT, "Lorin David Schultz"
<Lorin@DAMNSPAM!v5v.ca> wrote:

>I know this has been discussed before, but these things change faster
>than socks so I figure it's worth asking again:
>
>Anybody have an absolute "go to" hard drive choice these days? I'm
>looking for the fastest, quietest, most reliable 200GB drive I can get
>my hands on.

if you are doing alot of editing... and have the money, use a RAID-5
SCSI System 10K+ drives. RAIDS are great for editing and taking it off
the drive... super fast... they are though slower putting it on unless
you spend the money on a good caching card with 64MB+ of memory.
I've seen people using gigasampler w/o a good card and trying to
record entire orchestras (read 24+ simultanious parts) and its
glitched once or twice.

If you are not as fortunate... a SATA 150+ EIDE RAID (2 drives) will
work great.
This is what I've been using since my pc is faster than the server I
was using with the raid, although I now use it for offline storage.

You MUST provide ALOT of COOLING as SATA Drives Natively RUN HOT!
This kills 90% of the drives. And I've replaced ALOT recently in
clients machines... Mostly WDs & Maxtor's.

Have they developed a safe water cooling system for satas?


Bill
www.rampagesoundstudios.com

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ramtazz wrote:
>
> If you are not as fortunate... a SATA 150+ EIDE RAID (2 drives) will
> work great.

A 4-drive RAID10 will increase both speed and reliability. With today's
huge drives and low prices, we're using RAID10 for all but the largest
archive volumes.