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> Firewire Hd: 400 Or 800?!?, External hard drive
kd_rome
posté dim. 5 déc. 2004, 17:40
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Hi guys!
I need to buy an external hard drive to use with Protools and my powerbook 17" 1.5 GHz.
I would like to know what do you think about the differences between a LaCie Big Disk Extreme 320GB with a Firewire 800 - Oxford 912-8Mb and a
Maxtor OneTouch™ II - 300GB with a Firewire 400 - Oxford 911-16 Mb.

Everytime a read a review it's always about people that use the hd for pro video/photo, I would like to know something about the ProAudio needs.
Thanks!
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posté jeu. 9 déc. 2004, 21:45
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umm, one big file as in the barefeats tests shown doesn't completely convince me that it's good for audio, obviously the drive can take a lot of data, the manufacturer states 56 to 29 Mbytes/sec sustained which will use up a fw400 bus and more! 50MB/sec theoretical and 32 or above in the real world. I don't usually copy many big single files over, any paparazzi or video editors on here?
That's a 3 platter 6 head drive, if you went for the 60GB option you're down to 1 platter 2 heads, read the datasheet, and one third of the data rates he saw in his test. Now how many can you get on a fw400 bus?

If you talk about track count then you are recording or playing back lots of seperate files to a drive, with edits perhaps and other data in the bitstream, faster spinning more platters and more heads make a difference. I expect that drive may achieve 60+ 44.1 16 bit tracks but I'd like to see some track count based firewire comparison tests wouldn't you??


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- kd_rome   Firewire Hd: 400 Or 800?!?   dim. 5 déc. 2004, 17:40
- - Nels   For both audio and video, you'll want the fast...   dim. 5 déc. 2004, 18:36
- - kd_rome   Thanks for the answer! So you suggest the trip...   dim. 5 déc. 2004, 19:09
- - Nels   If you feel you'd need to have the 3 options(U...   dim. 5 déc. 2004, 22:16
- - lepetitmartien   Uh… USB2 is just on paper a little better than FW4...   dim. 5 déc. 2004, 22:16
- - kd_rome   I liked your answer, pretty clear and it's wha...   dim. 5 déc. 2004, 22:27
- - Nels   Yes, it can all be so confusing. One definite thi...   lun. 6 déc. 2004, 17:31
- - kd_rome   Yeah Nels, I posted the same question on the Digid...   lun. 6 déc. 2004, 17:36
- - ourmanflinty   don't forget that you won't get any more t...   lun. 6 déc. 2004, 18:33
- - CanadaRAM   QUOTE (kd_rome @ Dec 6 2004, 16:36)I was ceck...   mer. 8 déc. 2004, 07:07
- - Nels   Trevor, Just had to commend you on your concise e...   mer. 8 déc. 2004, 08:20
- - ourmanflinty   well, do the maths. real world sustained 32meg / s...   jeu. 9 déc. 2004, 15:48
- - Vincent Online   Hmmm I appreciate this thred... I've having so...   jeu. 9 déc. 2004, 22:39
- - ourmanflinty   You need to find out where the problem is, try goi...   ven. 10 déc. 2004, 00:06
- - Vincent Online   QUOTE (ourmanflinty @ Dec 9 2004, 23:06)You n...   ven. 10 déc. 2004, 02:34
- - ourmanflinty   bogs down pretty quick, any details? how many trac...   ven. 10 déc. 2004, 14:28


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