outboard harddrives

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Hold 'Em Czar
Member Since: Dec 30, 2004

ok i now have 23 tracks at home, that my 2001 western digital 7200rpm harddrive cannot keep up with....i temporarily put the drum tracks on my C drive, and it helped, but i still cannot listen to a 3.5 min song in it's enirety (sp?) without the whole thing crappin' out. my cpu meter is nice and healthy, but the disk meter accually maxes out and says "disk overload warning" haha so atleast i know what's causing it.


so i am now officially in the market for a new hard drive (or two), my options are firewire, usb 2.0 or a good IDE would be fine for now too, lol i guess that narrows the field down!

they gotta be atleast 10,000rpm and i'd really like to have one of those cool rack-mount ones with two bays!! that'd be sweet, but i'm not sure i have the $$, ok i know for fact i don't.....

so i guess my criteria is first and most importantly 10,000+ rpm, i'd prefer external but western digital has a nice Raptor for $120 that's lookin' good to me. as for money, my budget is roughly $200 but i am willing to go up to $300 if it's worth it.

any suggestions?

wyd

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Hold 'Em Czar
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Since: Dec 30, 2004


Feb 28, 2005 04:09 pm

wow i found this sweet site

www.zipzoomfly.com

got loadsa stuff at good prices.

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Since: Sep 12, 2003


Feb 28, 2005 04:20 pm

How long have you been using your computer without having it formatted and everything reinstalled?? Might just be clogged up with bunch of files, a disk defrag might help. I have a 200GB 7200RPM harddrive with a song that has close to 30 tracks and it drags at first loading it and then it goes smooth.

Hold 'Em Czar
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Since: Dec 30, 2004


Feb 28, 2005 04:23 pm

nah i reformatted it NTFS when i got my dell...there is only audio files on it. i defragged both HD's last week...i think it's just gettin' old.

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Since: Sep 12, 2003


Feb 28, 2005 04:24 pm

Tell me what size harddrive you would be interested in and I can give a price for one.

Hold 'Em Czar
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Since: Dec 30, 2004


Feb 28, 2005 04:25 pm

anything 30 gigs or higher really , my main concern is speed.

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Since: Sep 12, 2003


Feb 28, 2005 04:42 pm

It's hard to find a IDE 10,000RPM hard drive, but you can get plenty of SCSI ones!! Course, that is totally different than what you need.

I keep thinking that 7200RPM should do you fine that there is something else in play here to slow you down. But from what you have described, it's sounds like your harddrive has just gone to poop. I take it that your dell isn't under warranty anymore. Let me price you a 40GB 7200RPM harddrive, I'm thinking you will be fine with this but others here should give their voice on that too.

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Since: Sep 12, 2003


Feb 28, 2005 04:50 pm

I can get you an 80GB Samsung 7200RPM for $85. The best deal I have that was more bang for your buck is the Samsung 160GB 7200RPM for $130. Course, they come with a 1 year warranty that we will replace it for you if it goes out.

Drop me a line at [email protected]

Ex-Wookie
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Since: Aug 29, 2003


Feb 28, 2005 04:58 pm

if you look in the saturday ads, best buy and circuit city have been blowing out 200 and 250 gig IDe drives for $90 and $100 respectivly. I really don't think you need a 10,000rpm drive.

I have run up to 40 tracks easy with my IDE 80gig WD.


Hold 'Em Czar
Member
Since: Dec 30, 2004


Feb 28, 2005 05:35 pm

really? thanks guys....man this means i havn't figured out what's wrong with my setup then!!!!
just when i thought i had the situation under some control....

thanks and gimme 2 weeks to save some cash.

wyd

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Since: Sep 11, 2004


Mar 06, 2005 05:17 pm

If it's actually your HDs, i would strongly recommend going SATA. It's MUCH faster than IDE, and you can easily run it RAID 0, which means if you bought two identical drives, data is spread over both of them, so when you a reading/writing, both drives are putting out, which results in a very high throughput.

Its a little less reliable, because if either of the HD fails, you lose all of your data. But, as long as you back it up, this is definitely the best performance route to go. Just make sure your Dell has SATA support (which it probably doesnt, lol).

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