What's the best/quickest type of hard...

What's the best/quickest type of hard drive for audio?

Posted on Jul 31, 2004 02:23 pm
karambos
Half of twice one
Member Since: Feb 09, 2004

What kind of hard drive is quickest (best) for audio?

Ultra-wide SCSI
Firewire
USB 2.0
other

vdalehubbard
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Since: Sep 12, 2003

Aug 01, 2004 12:41 am

An SCSI is a faster and quicker harddrive but to costly in my opinon. I would just go with a 7200RPM IDE harddrive and spend the money you saved by going IDE on a big harddrive because we all know audio takes up space. Or if you are meaning an external harddrive, which work fine but internal is faster, I would go with USB 2.0 since it's standard. But then again, you probably won't tell the difference as far as speed in firewire compared to USB 2.0.

[ins]anarchist
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Since: Jun 29, 2004

Aug 06, 2004 01:22 am

if you're looking for internal, I'd say the new 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptor drives are the best. They use a SATA interface, so you might need a controller card depending on your system, but same deal with SCSI. The raptors come in 36 GB and 74 GB flavors!