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[bluetone78]

Is there a difference, performance-wise, between your standard internal serial ATA drive and your standard external Firewire drive? I'm assuming similar hard drive specs - I'm more concerned with how the bus effects performance. For example how well would a firewire drive handle a large sample library (5+ GB, at once), reading direct from disk, where it would have to seek out large amounts of info at once?

[bluetone78]

wow, thanks guys -

that's ALOT of really useful info. I've got two internals already. The factory installed Maxtor (for programs) and a MaxLine III 250GB (for audio) that I put in myself. I was thinking of getting another drive, external (since there's no more room inside the computer...) to put my samples on. I write orchestral stuff that uses large sample libraries and a lots of stereo tracks, and I'm actaully running out of room on the second drive.

Does anyone have experience using multiple drives for audio? (in this case one internal SATA and one external FW) Are there any internal bus issues that would give me a law of diminishing returns with this stuff?