Ok so I posted a week or so ago about a bad experience I had with a firewire 800 external drive. Anyway, Im sending it back and getting a refund but I wanted to confer with you guys about a good, but cheaper (under $100 please) firewire 800 drive thats good for recording to. This will be my recording HD. Can anyone recommend some for me? and shooting a link to a place that sells it would be appreciated! ..and the more recommendations the better
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Firewire 800 External Hard Drive recomendations for recording
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You can buy an enclosure and put whatever hard drive you want in it. A good enclosure should be able to keep the hard disk cool.
I can't suggest specific enclosures, but I do know that the Western Digital Caviar Black is a hard disk with a good reputation.
I can't suggest specific enclosures, but I do know that the Western Digital Caviar Black is a hard disk with a good reputation.
I use these too. I had one fail but it was replaced.
Then buy a Seagate drive. These have a 5 year warranty. For a disk drive 5 years is as good as "lifetime" Other brands are only 3 year. Check before you buy as there are odd exceptions,
You will need to buy four. One for data, one for a time machine backup and on for a rotating "ping pong" remote backup. What I do is buy a new drive about every year and retire the oldest drive. I always buy the largest size available so that after 4 or so years it is a usable size. You really have to get into a rotation and retirement plan in order to keep the data and the backup copies reliable
We use Glyph drives at the (university) recording studio where I work, and they've been fantastic. They're the hot-swappable models (these drives), but I've heard good things about all of their products. You'll find lots of specific models if you poke around Sweetwater's site.