external HD woes
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Posted on Nov 11, 2008 10:39 am
rhinokio
Member Since: Oct 01, 2008
external harddrive issue,
as advised by the guy at the music store (and posts on forums) i piced up a external firewire harddrive.
the chap at the store also suggested daisy chaining the hard drive from the second firewire on the presonus so the stup is like (COmputer > Presonus > Hard drive) problem is, when i do this i get constant freezes and audio drops when recording, and sometimes a freeze on file save) every thing seems to work fine whne i go back to the laptops internal HD
any suggestions? its a 7200 rpm 500gb drive freshly defraged
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Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Nov 11, 2008 07:13 pm Was the chap at the store on crack?
Seriously though, you can daisy chain other gear, but I would never daisy chain an external HD. I don't even run them through a hub or anything as that is not a good idea at all.
But yes, that is causing the crashing for sure.
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
Nov 12, 2008 12:12 pm Yeah, that is an odd way of doing things.
My laptop only has one firewire port so.... I bought an external that supports both firewire and usb2. When I use the UX8 (usb) I run the harddrive off firewire, when I run the Mackie (firewire) I run the hard drive off USB.
One other oddity, I have to turn off my wireless NIC unless recording to the internal drive. If I don't I get drops.
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Nov 12, 2008 12:21 pm Yeah, the data would have to go from the presonus, back to the motherboard, then back out the firewire into the presonus, then over to the HD.
ick!
Both the interface and HD will want to have very high throughput, as they're both trying to stream data realtime.
Putting them on their own firewire port should fix that problem. Or, like Capt'n said, Try a USB2 HD, so the presonus can stay all by itself on FW.
