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LaCie 500GB External Hard Disk, okay for DAW?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:27 pm    Post subject: LaCie 500GB External Hard Disk, okay for DAW? Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Would the LaCie 500GB External Hard Disk 301313U work fine for hard disk recording, as the main hard disk for my DAW?

http://www.directron.com/301313u.html

I would be running it over a FireWire 400 port on a MacBook along with a Fireface 800.

Is this drive fast enough? Reliable? Its price is nice. Is the 8MB cache too small?

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I´m not completely convinced. Perhaps there are others here who have tried this and can tell you how well it works?

The Macbook is a wonderful computer, but there are some bottlenecks. The Firewire 400 port is one of them. You might want to look into the Macbook Pro which has a card slot and you can get eSata cards for it. This means you can connect an external SATA drive. That will give you some serious bandwidth. And many of the LaCie drives do come with eSata/USB 2 and Firewire 800 interfaces. Or you can buy an empty eSata cabinet and add the drive with the exact specs you want?

The reason why I´m not convinced is that I use a large number of tracks and even though the Firewire protocol is quite nice, I can easily imagine you will discover it is a bottleneck when you are ramping up the number of tracks.

It might be better to invest in an internal 7200 rpm drive and use the external firewire drive for archiving project folders?

I am using a Macbook myself for making simple sketches and writing notation, but I have a Mac Pro set up as my main DAW.

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