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I've owned an HD-24 for several years now. I have made many a transfer
with the ethernet connection and yes, it is relatively slow. I believe
the firewire connector is $200.00 not $300.00 and it works well but is
meant to transfer files to computer and does not talk to the older
ADATs. I have borrowed the firewire hardware from a friend and it does
kick butt for transfers.

That's CDN$300... exchange rate is a bitch. My friend who actually owns
all the gear is the one who told me this price anyway, it may have
dropped since then.

Once I bought my HD-24, I literally stopped using my ADATs and have not
even powered them up for 3 years. The HD-24 is so much easier to use
and has a much better feature set.

Since we only have a 24-channel board right now, I expect we'd be
keeping the ADATs around just long enough to transfer stuff off the old
tapes onto the HD24 anyway.

I have done several independant CD's and many demo's using the HD-24.
It is dependable and almost completely crash-proof by my experience
which has not been true of my DAW experience. Buying cheap IDE media at
Costco or Office Max (check with tech support or other users of HD-24s
for IDE brand recommendations) has been a Godsend.

I get even better prices at a local hole-in-the-wall retailer... big
drives can be had at less than a buck a gig. They don't have anything
slower than a 7200rpm, ATA-100 with 2MB cache, and looking at their
"Specials" page right now, an 80GB Hitachi drive with those specs can be
had on sale for CDN$65, or an ATA-133 8MB/120GB Seagate Barracuda for
CDN$105. 300GB drives are listed around CDN$250 and 400GB drives now
start at about CDN$400.

I just completed recording a series of rehearsals featuring Jim and Dan
Seals, a new collaboration of brothers who each had major recording
groups of their own at one time. We went from song to song to song and
recorded about 50 songs @ 24-track on a 40gig HD for about $65 then
popped the HD out for a new project. Portability of the HD-24 is also a
great advantage. You are welcome to contact me directly if you have any
other questions.

Thanks for the info, you've been most helpful