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Mike Rivers
 
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Default Mackie SDR 24/96 - Hard Drive upgrade?


In article "Oily" writes:

I've just bought an SDR, it comes with a 20GB internal drive which I would
like to replace with something much larger. Has anyone done anything similar
or have any idea what's the largest drive that an SDR will 'see' ?


Mackie says "a couple of terabytes" but most people who are putting in
a large drive are using 120 or 160 gigabytes now. Don't put all your
eggs in one basket. It will be tempting if your drive is too large.

It's fairly easy to replace the internal drive on the SDR because
there's plenty of room inside the box. I believe that it needs to be
set to either "slave" or "cable select" (reports are that both work,
but it probably depends on the drive) in order to be recognized.

I tried asking Mackie but have yet to receive a reply.


Mackie is very slow in responding to e-mail, and you probably won't
get a very satisfactory answer other than telling you what you can use
as an external drive (since they don't want to officially condone
making changes inside the box). You could ask on their support forum
though. I'm sure there are a few people who will come back with the
size and make of drive they're using successfully.



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