I believe I read here sometime ago that
it is advisable to have something smaller like a 250 or 320 gb drive as there is less real estate for the head to cover hence better audio performance..or words to that effect.
Now, I've already purchased the 500 GB drive and external enclosure, and am preparing to copy all my old DP3 projects onto it.
My question is that, if the above is indeed the case, should I swap the 500 for a smaller drive OR should I just partition it into two, let's say, a 100 GB partition for recording and a 400 GB partition for storage?
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MacBook C2D
2 GIG RAM
160 GB INTERNAL
DP5
ULN-2
Is 500 GB too big for an external FW audio drive?
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Not to be indelicate, but just like in good porn, "it's never too big".
Rotational speed of the drive is important, as is the buffer size. Modern drives are fast and size of the new drives doesn't appear to be a limiting factor.
One thing to keep in mind, however, is a scary question. How much data are you prepared to lose? Drives die. It's just a fact of life. The new ones are good for a long time, but eventually it's gonna go bye-bye, taking your info with it. You have 2 obvious choices to be safe. Either back up fairly often (cheap, easy to do and rarely ever done) or use smaller drives so the data loss is less devastating. Not that this is going to happen to you next Thursday or anything, but plan ahead.
Rotational speed of the drive is important, as is the buffer size. Modern drives are fast and size of the new drives doesn't appear to be a limiting factor.
One thing to keep in mind, however, is a scary question. How much data are you prepared to lose? Drives die. It's just a fact of life. The new ones are good for a long time, but eventually it's gonna go bye-bye, taking your info with it. You have 2 obvious choices to be safe. Either back up fairly often (cheap, easy to do and rarely ever done) or use smaller drives so the data loss is less devastating. Not that this is going to happen to you next Thursday or anything, but plan ahead.
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stephen1212b
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I have a Syquest 44 meg removable drive somewhere. "All the hard drive you will ever need"
Lets see 254 gig just for my music that means I would only need about 60 removable disks to back it up. Kind of reminds me of an early copy of Office on 22 floppies.
My next external drive is going to be a Terabyte raid array. Remember eventually every hard drive fails. A backup is good, but a backup to the back up that can go online at the flip of a switch now thats great, but if it really really matters you need an off site back up as well. Dividing a drive into partitions won't really help much and when you get close to filling a partition performance can suffer more than the overhead of one really large drive.
Lets see 254 gig just for my music that means I would only need about 60 removable disks to back it up. Kind of reminds me of an early copy of Office on 22 floppies.
My next external drive is going to be a Terabyte raid array. Remember eventually every hard drive fails. A backup is good, but a backup to the back up that can go online at the flip of a switch now thats great, but if it really really matters you need an off site back up as well. Dividing a drive into partitions won't really help much and when you get close to filling a partition performance can suffer more than the overhead of one really large drive.
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Isn't porn like pizza?...It's never reallly bad.burp182 wrote:Not to be indelicate, but just like in good porn, "it's never too big".
Sounds like my prom date...Ba DUM Bum!burp182 wrote:cheap, easy to do and rarely ever done
Thank you folks. I'm here all week!
Taggart
Mac Mini
DP 11
Reason, and various plug-ins, VI's and such.
Mac Mini
DP 11
Reason, and various plug-ins, VI's and such.
Burp is absolutely right!burp182 wrote:Not to be indelicate, but just like in good porn, "it's never too big".
Rotational speed of the drive is important, as is the buffer size. Modern drives are fast and size of the new drives doesn't appear to be a limiting factor.
One thing to keep in mind, however, is a scary question. How much data are you prepared to lose? Drives die. It's just a fact of life. The new ones are good for a long time, but eventually it's gonna go bye-bye, taking your info with it. You have 2 obvious choices to be safe. Either back up fairly often (cheap, easy to do and rarely ever done) or use smaller drives so the data loss is less devastating. Not that this is going to happen to you next Thursday or anything, but plan ahead.
Keep in mind his suggestions...
It's never too big
Never only one copy of your files