I have never owned 1 with a fan either, and have found as you, that if you get
1 with good airflow, there’s nothing to worry about; I’m talking about drives
that are on all day long and some times for days at a time!
DJX
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Phil Muir
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 4:28 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: External sound card
When looking at this found several options. I could have gone with caddies that
had fans fitted to them. However, never yet had a external hard drive caddy
with a fan fitted that ran quietly. Also personally never found that those fans
make much difference. Went with caddies without fans but with good air flow.
These seem to work well and importantly don't get too hot ;-)
On 29 December 2015 00:22:05 GMT+00:00, D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Yes, startek makes good ones.
DJX
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Muir
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 2:11 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: External sound card
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
<mailto: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 dr
ives,
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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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.
Regard
s, Phil
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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.
:)
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