A friend of mine called me and needed advise on the best drive setup for his Mac and DP.
He has a G4 graphics machine originally 500mhz. He put in the 1.4ghz Sonnet now and want's to start recording and producing so here's what I told him.
Because the machine can only use parallel ATA's and that's a speed dead end, I told him to call MCETECH and buy the cheapest, fastest oem drive at about 150gb's he could get. Should be under a hundred bucks.
Then buy a couple of these :
http://www.memorylabs.net/181gscsihdd.html closeouts because he has a scsi2 card internal.
This will give him two cheetah drives for music and a big honkin parallel drive for programs.
He's increasing ram to around 1.5gb which will be sweet. He has a MOTU IO so that should do him fine.
Comments?
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Mac Hard Drive setup & recommendations to record multitr
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If he's on Tiger, he might reconsider SCSI. If the SCSI is compatible with Tiger, I don't see why it wouldn't work, however reading the Apple discussions, SCSI is a PITA under Tiger.
I just lost a Ultrastar LVD and don't think Iwant to go down that road again. The price is rather good on that Segate though.
I just lost a Ultrastar LVD and don't think Iwant to go down that road again. The price is rather good on that Segate though.