To Raid Or Not To Raid Options

[bradondc]

I have nearly maxed out my internal hard drive on my mac book, so i'm looking for a new harddrive. Should I be woried aout getting one with raid built in suh as the lacie little bug disk or the maxtor one touch iii turbo raid? Or will just having 7200 rpm be okay? I have had disk errors in garageband and get the occasional 'here are to many tracks' warnings with the internal drive. Also, if i got a hub and linked up 2 hard drives would i then be able to use the software raid in osX? Thanks for your time cheers

[tig66]

Quick question.. what about using a USB 2 drive eg. the Lacie Porsche designed units?
The problem is if I use a F/W drive to store all my sounds.. Kompakt, Latigo etc.. then it interferes with my MAudio FW410 F/W interface - MAudio recommend not sharing the F/W buss with this interface.

I would have thought that USB2 should be OK as it's the same buss speed as F/W 400 ??

[lepetitmartien]

USB 2 is on paper faster than FW400 (480 mbs vs 400) unfortunately, FW is way better at handling streams which is our duty

Now, if you have issues with your interface, it's to be considered, I'm not saying USB2 is not usable, just: FW is better. what's your laptop? If it's a powerbook/macbook pro, you can have a pcmcia or express card to add FW buses and get a life in bliss and milk and honey…

[bradondc]

regarding my HD, it is an internal unit in an enclosure. it has its own psu but this is a bit inconvenient. how easy would it be to sort it so that its bus powered from the firewire?

[lepetitmartien]

Only built according to this need enclosures are bus powered, and it's most likely to be found in 2.5" nomad drives.

One example
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a third one
(…to be continued oops 2 are 3.5"

Note, before buying any of these, I'd wait for some user input (I've never used bus powered drives, so I can't tell is these are reliable and effective)

[bradondc]

ive hit problems with the new harddrive, GB keeps telling me I have to many tracks but i am only using 2 soft synths, iDrum, and 3 audio tracks. I have had the disk to slow msg aswell. Would logic express have the same issues?