Firewire Drives

go to pacific pro audio .com they have some great fire wire drives

although not officially approved i use the ads pyro firewire enclosure (compusa $99.99) and my choice of drives (western digital is what i like 7200 w/8 meg cache). the biggest mix i've seen done on this was 60-70 tracks all coming off the same drive in pthd. hope this helps you out. brian

Hi there. I have the mBox companion drive (80 Gig)that I recorded up to 24 live outdoor tracks of 24 bit audio using my Mix Cubed system on July 1, 2002. We've beaten it up with lots of Beat Detective using close to 60 tracks, and it's great! I also recently purchased the LaCie 120 Gig drive that I recorded 16 tracks of 24 bit audio from another live performance. I should also add that I successfully edited three sets of 16 tracks from the SAME LaCie drive to make good takes.(the group played to a click. It's fun editing in groups of 16...) I had 48 tracks of 24 bit audio running through the firewire port of my Tibook 800 through the Magma 4 slot chassis. Absolutely amazing. The advantages of the Glyph Mbox drive is that it has the built in power supply, temperature sensitive fan, and it looks cool.. Rugged metal chassis. The disadvantages of it is that you can't put the drive sideways. It has to stand up vertically. And as you mentioned, it's expensive. The advantages of the LaCie drives is that they are even more rugged than the Glyph, and you can mount them horizontally or vertically. You can also get an adapter and place two of them in a 1U rack space! They are very affordable. The disadvantages of the LaCie drive is that they use the stupid wall wart. Argh. They both work wonderful for audio production, recording, and editing, however. If you want to save $$, go with LaCie. Thanks, and God bless! Craig Learmont

I buy Western Digital 40 gig drives pretty cheap I've found them lately for $59,. I buy ADS firewire external inclosures. I recently bought two at CompUSA for $49.99 ea. after $50 rebate. I have been using them at 44.1, 48, 96 with no problems. Although at 96, they seem to be a little more sluggish. I have only done about 24 or so tracks at 96 though. I usally partition them to two or three partitions.

I just got a new IBM ATA Deskstar 80 gig drive and mounted it inside my G4. That way I don't have to fuss with FW extensions, drivers, worry about firmware, etc. Drive seems faster than scsi. I'm not sure why more people don't do this instead . Backup to DVD.

i use HD4 WITH 933 Q SILVER no scsi i run both 2 80's (4 parts) and a 120 / 6 parts PARTITIONED western digital caviar drives with the ADS pryo the pryo enclosure was $79 after the $20 rebate and it is the quiter of my 2 enclosures-the other being some maverick knock off- so that is why i recommend that one the drives are found cheaper on the internet and the ADS i got a FRYE's i also use an internal drive for PT as i moved my system drive to the ide extention cable bus above my super drive so i'm running 3 of these westerns simultaneously one for work , another cloned as dedicated backup and the third (the 120) for quickies and emergencies