Agreed. That's exactly what I did. Purchassed desktop drives and put them in
some Startech enclosures which are pretty good :-)
On 28 December 2015 18:04:40 GMT+00:00, D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Regarding external drives, it would be best to buy your own enclosure,
a
good USB3 one, not all are equal, and buy a desktop rated 7200RPM
constant
drive, that means no power savers or such, but a high performance drive
with
64mb cache and constant 7200rpm speed like the WD black series. Stay
away
from all these store sold small drives, they are nothing but laptop
drives
in an enclosure, some which run at 5400 or 4900! RPM. And are usually
set to
turn off and go into energy saver modes which might be bad for audio.
However, take into account your interface and what connection it uses.
Using
say a USB external drive when also using a large USB audio interface
could
mean trouble for both, as bandwidth might be a problem, especially when
the
same bus/hub is shared. Most laptops only have 1 or 2, and they are
also
shared with internal devices such as card reader, Bluetooth adapter,
camera
and other accessories like motion sensors/fingerprint readers etc.
Same would go fro a thunderbolt drive and large firewire interface if
you
are using a 1394 to tb adapter.
HTH, DJX
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Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 9:40 AM
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Subject: [ddots-l] Re: External sound card
Not sure really. Using an external 7200RPM SATA III drive here. Guess
you
could go thunderbolt for those also but usually that's not where any
slowdown in system performance is. Usually it's processor speed and
RAM. I
know solid state drives have come down a lot but there's still the
issue of
read cycles on those. I know that's not the issue that it used to be
however DAW builders such as Jim Roseberry over at StudioCat still
aren't
going with those as audio drives. Solid state would be great for a
sample
drive say on a desktop system as loading samples would be
instantaneous.
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[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Raywonder
Sent: 28 December 2015 10:53
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: External sound card
I use my Ext drive, not a Solid-state, but it really is fast on the
Mac. I'm
def gonna get a new USB ext drive next month though. Only have one and
need
more space. You know how that is.
The Mac has the flash storage drive though.
1 tb in it as well.
:)
Any good Recommendations for Ext drives?
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