[Mikey]

"Soundhaspriority" wrote in message
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Stay away from plastic cases without fans. They cook the drive. The
optimal material is extruded aluminum, which conducts heat readily, with
the entire enclosure acting as a radiator. You will have more choices if
you buy the drive and the case separately.

If your purpose is audio, Samsung is a good choice, since they are still
significantly quieter than other brands. But except for audio, all other
current drives are quiet enough to be unannoying.

Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511


"john hanks" wrote in message
ups.com...
Hi,

I'm new to the group and hope this hasn't been covered too recently.
I would like to purchase an external hard drive to use with my laptop,
which is now an iBook, but will soon be a Mac Book Pro. I use the
laptop for 2 track recording, real time performance using software
synths (battery 3, etc) via a DrumKat MIDI controller, and sound
design using either Digital Performer or Logic (any opinions on those
are welcome, too).

I would like to know what external hard drives other folks use. I'm
looking for portability/small size, firewire, fast drive speed, etc,
and low noise level: no loud fans.

I guess my request kind of borders between a couple of newsgroups
besides this one, but rec.audio.pro has the most members and traffic,
so here I am.

Thanks for your help,

John



I have never used anything with the name "Samsung" on it that worked proerly
for any length of time. YMMV.

Mikey Wozniak
Nova Music Productions
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