Hard Drives

tweeky

I have to replace some drives soonish. Does anyone have any recomendations? It's for use with a HD3 ProTools system on a non intel G5,
replacing Lacie FireWire 800's.

brettzy

Hey Tweeky,

I had a new seagate go kaput on me before (luckily I had it backed up) other than that all my other drives have been fine.

Have a look at this one Samsung 1TB F1R

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=175331

Better than average read times and excellent write time, should be perfect for audio applications. Ain't cheap though

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Serial+ATA/1TB+Samsung+F1R+Raid+Class+Enterprise+SATA2+Hard+Drive+?productId=35139

Bluebirdstudios

Hi Tweeky,
I been using G-tech drives for the last 4-5 years now with PPC G5 , no problems . Looks good too with Apple macs . Bought them of Big Bear sound (Dublin). Also good model selection to suit budget. Very quiet operation barely a whisper ideal for control rooms.
There ye have it !

- Declan

PaulBrewer

We've had some problems with Lacie and G-Raids.

The first generation G Raids had a common power supply fault (I think it was)

However none of the later ones have had any trouble I've seen.


Do you need external ? An internal cost peanuts these days.

Why are you changing ? Pre-emting the inevitable ?

woodsdenis

tweeky wrote: »

I have to replace some drives soonish. Does anyone have any recomendations? It's for use with a HD3 ProTools system on a non intel G5,
replacing Lacie FireWire 800's.

I use a G drive FW 800 and it has been no problem so far. I use an internal SATA drive for audio, much faster and quicker than FW. I have seen G drives in loads of Video edit suites so the must be fairly robust.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/

These guys are popular across the pond.

Rockshamrover

woodsdenis wrote: »

I use a G drive FW 800 and it has been no problem so far. I use an internal SATA drive for audio, much faster and quicker than FW. I have seen G drives in loads of Video edit suites so the must be fairly robust.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/

These guys are popular across the pond.

I've bought a few things from these guys, they do a lot of audio stuff along with their own version of Ram for Mac. Great value to be had.

madtheory

+1 for internal.

tweeky

Thanks for the feedback guys, always think external due to force of habit.