external hard disk specs

guiminha · Post by **guiminha** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:47 pm

Hi there,

What kind of specs should I look for when shopping for an external HD to store my tracks/wavs for laptop DJing with Ableton Live?

Is USB enough? Firewire? 5400 or 7200 RPM? Any model/brand suggestions?

Regards,

G

ARDJ · Post by **ARDJ** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:41 pm

you should search, this question has been answered a few times.

guiminha · Post by **guiminha** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:04 pm

ARDJ wrote:you should search, this question has been answered a few times.

I did. but did not find anything useful. The search mechanism for this forum is rather limited, and I never find what i am looking after (or it gives thousands of hits or it gives none).

If you could point me to the original posts, I would be glad.

Regards,

G

ARDJ · Post by **ARDJ** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:07 pm

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may05/a ... sician.htm

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:10 pm

I use my laptop harddrive (5400rpm) and an external FW400 320GB 7200rpm (3.5") with a 8MB cache (Lacie and WD, same spec).

I tend to not have huge numbers of tracks though. The externals are used for backup/library.

guiminha · Post by **guiminha** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:41 pm

robin wrote:I use my laptop harddrive (5400rpm) and an external FW400 320GB 7200rpm (3.5") with a 8MB cache (Lacie and WD, same spec).

I tend to not have huge numbers of tracks though. The externals are used for backup/library.

Thanks for the tip Robin.

I use a Firewire Audiophile M-Audio soundcard, so if I get a firewire HD I would just hook it to the firewire port 2 in my Audiophile card, would't it? (port 1 is connected to PC laptop). Does firewire works like a SCSI bus? Anyone tried/using this? Any troubles?

G