recommend an external firewire drive to use for recording (1 Viewer)

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

is this even advisable?

 

[ernesto]

is this even advisable?

no, the write/read speeds are too slow. a serial or ata/sata/scsi drive is recommended. that or move the stuff on your internal to the external and use the internal for recording.

 

[kings lead hat]

chill out!

course it is .......
glyph are without the doubt the best..........reliability
most ppl are scared of lacie but personally ive never had 1 go down on me
but some ppl have. ive worked with literally 100's and never had em go down.
glyph all the way, ive never heard of 1 going down.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

c'mon guys, who should i listen to here?
why does ernesto say x and al say y?

 

[kings lead hat]

are u g5 or g4 or pc?
slow/fast computer?

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

External disk are grand!
Used 'em for ages.
No worries.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

PC...it used to be fast!
it's a toshiba satellite pro...it's about 4 year old now though...still works grand

i don't do very much home recording - mostly only used for recording live jams from one mic (we're cavemen like that) - so just wondering if this'd be quick enough to get the shit down....i mostly need it (external HD) for freeing up space, thsi would be a nice bonus

 

[ernesto]

chill out!

course it is .......
glyph are without the doubt the best..........reliability
most ppl are scared of lacie but personally ive never had 1 go down on me
but some ppl have. ive worked with literally 100's and never had em go down.
glyph all the way, ive never heard of 1 going down.

???

it's doable. not recommended though.

i've used my LaCie 200GB firewire drive wih a firewire800 but playing back loads of tracks from it whilst recording to it can cause wee stalls and audio drop outs i found. was using cubase and Logic Express. changed to my internal and never had that problem again. id recommend LaCie after having a Maxtor, a Seagate and a Lidl one all crap out on me. LaCie one is deadly otherwise

 

[Pantone247]

c'mon guys, who should i listen to here?
why does ernesto say x and al say y?

who has the most gold discs on the wall?

 

[ernesto]

PC...it used to be fast!
it's a toshiba satellite pro...it's about 4 year old now though...still works grand

i don't do very much home recording - mostly only used for recording live jams from one mic (we're cavemen like that) - so just wondering if this'd be quick enough to get the shit down....i mostly need it (external HD) for freeing up space, thsi would be a nice bonus

it would be grand for that. i was thinkin in terms of titloads of simultaneous tracking

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

fuck that shit - you gotta learn to get things right first time!

 

[ernesto]

who has the most gold discs on the wall?

shit. i have neither gold nor discs on any of my walls.

 

[kings lead hat]

generally only ever use fwires in studios..........
never had a prob......

CHILL MON

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

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this is about as chilled out as i will probably ever get (the guy in the brown)

 

[kings lead hat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0oQwrlZD8

and this me

well chilled

 

[ernesto]

hi guys, im just over here getting me groove on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5xGUq5-C4

 

[aoboa]

Personally, I'd do as Ernesto suggested and move everything off onto the external drive and record direct to your internal hd.
Your internal drive definitely has a faster read/write speed than usb2 or firewire.
If you want, bring an external drive with you and backup the project onto it as you're going - just in case you drop the laptop or the drive

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

Your internal drive definitely has a faster read/write speed than usb2 or firewire.

ah - this is what i was trying to ask

i could just start deleting things

 

[Charlie Bucket]

most ppl are scared of lacie but personally ive never had 1 go down on me

 

[the departed]

2thumbs up for both my lacies here.
ones 3 years old. still happily doing its job.

SHIT THERES NO WOOD NEARBY!