I want to buy an external firewire/usb drive. I use the mac and am
planning on doing some location recording with a powerbook g4. Anything
I need to watch out for? Recommendations?
thanks
Steve

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I want to buy an external firewire/usb drive. I use the mac and am
planning on doing some location recording with a powerbook g4. Anything
I need to watch out for?

A compatible chipset in the Firewire adapter. But you won't know it
isn't until you try it.

Advice? Buy something that you can return for a refund or exchange.


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Powerbook? Sounds like you're wanting to go mobile?

Do watch how you set up, especially in cluttered crowded areas.
Knocking it over and crashing the internal disk sucks... :-)

Andy

Hi.
Any of the Quantegy drives work well. Lots of people use Lacie drives
too, I haven't used them for long but I had no trouble doing 24 of so
tracks onto either of them. The G4 powerbook has Firewire 400 as far as
I know, so the extra expense of an 800 drive isn't worth it. The 800
interface is faster and the connections seem to fit better.
I think the chipset being refered to is called an Oxford 911 chipset
but I couldn't be 100% on that.
Whatever you use BACK IT UP before you leave the gig... Most firewire
drives seem to be IDE inside anyway...

All the best.
DS

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Echols wrote:

I want to buy an external firewire/usb drive. I use the mac and am
planning on doing some location recording with a powerbook g4. Anything
I need to watch out for? Recommendations?
thanks
Steve


If your planning to record lots of audio tracks, you might consider the
fastest possible HD, such as an SATA 10,000 rpm drive (like a Raptor)
in an external firewire 800 enclosure. That'll limit you to about 70GB.
and cost you around $500

If your tracking is more conservative, then a good 7,200 rpm drive
would be fine, such as a LaCie or Maxtor. You then can get a less
expensive drive with hundreds of GB. for $150 and up

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Echols
which mac are you using?
powerbook (al or ti) ibook?
what interface are you using for audio?
protools has recomendations for using an oxford chipset.
metric halo recommends using a seperate card for interfacing a seperate
external harddrive.(all the existing firewire ports are on the same
bus).
you could buy a firewire enclosure which allows you to swap out
multiple hard drives.

dale