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Re: setting up Mac for audio - questions

Yea, all audio on a separate drive, all virtual instruments are SUPPOSED TO BE on yet another separate drive. Firewire works great for me!  I've done some very high track count sessions without blip.

I've heard the new USB is faster.  Don't know how robust it is. 

And Drobo (an external modified raid) is THE BOMB for backup.  I have 7TB in mine right now and will upgrade to 10 TB soon.  They're very slow to set up, slow (as in days sometimes) when installing new drives, but once set up, they're great for backup (use Time Machine).  Then I have a Newer Technologies Voyager for second backup.  I take the old drives out of the Drobo when they get upgraded and use them in the Voyager for second backup.  Voyager is just like a socket you plug different drives into as needed.  In lieu of a Drobo, I'd at least get a Voyager and a bunch of 1 or 2 TB raw internal drives to plug into it when needed. 

Drobo is great because, if a drive fails, you just plug in a new one.  No data lost.  I use the cheap WD green Caviar drives.  Slow but, again, great for safety. 


Buy 'em at Egghead or wherever. 

One drawback: the more HDs you have hanging on Firewire (etc), the slower the startup.  

Every time I've done a partition, I've regretted it.  I'm sure YMMV.

Other World Computing makes great drives for recording.  Guaranteed for three years or so. 


LaCie is also good.  I think they might cost more. 

I usually buy raw drives from Tiger Direct.  Haven't shopped a whole lot, though.
R


On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

Firewire can be daisy-chained. Thus no need for a hub. Avoid USB for
audio if possible (USB data transmission capacity flutter with varying
CPU load).

It's more safe to use extra drives for your project recordings. Best
is two drives, where you copy files to keep them identical. This
serves two causes: you back up your work and you never have to suffer
downtime to defrag the work dirves (given you reformat a drive before
copying all work files to it).

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
www.looproom.com internet music hub



On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Louie Angulo
<louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello people,
im going to be aupgrading from the dual core 21" imac to the 27" quad
core for audio recording purposes.
The thing i need to consider before buying is:
would it be better to get it with the 2TB HD than the 1TB?
would you then partition the 2TB in two and put all of your software
in one and your recordings into the second partition?
or would you just get a 1TB and get an external HD to store your files?
which one would you recommend or is faster, firewire or USB? could you
give me a link to professional reliable ones?
the Imacs only have one FW800 port in the back where i already have my
RME FW800 plugged in
that means i would need a FW hub to plug the external HD,which one
would you recomend  that have combinations of USBs and FW?
so far ive found this one :

http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=199941

thanx for your help!
cheers
Luis



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