su94925 wrote:
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> i'm going to take advantage of the gap in the action. I have all the
> equipment lined up for getting my recordings into my computer and
> editing. Now I need to find the way out. I need suggestions on
> external hard drives and cd burners. There are so many products out
> there but I have no idea which is more appropriate for our uses. I
> am using a Sony Viao laptop so either BUS or Firewire is available.
Firewire or SCSI is probably the best way if investing in a new burner.
Firewire seems to be gaining ground rapidly there. I have a external 1.3
gig optical disk that's firewire and runs fine with my Sony Vaio. It
took getting a PC card firewire port to run it. But now it's as plug and
play as windows gets. (on our OS 10 G4 it's literally plug and play, no
extra software or anything needed) I use a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW on my Mac
G4 for burning. Those work real well with macs, don't know on PC's. I've
had mine a couple years, replaced a older, slower Yamaha.
For burning don't get too suckered in on high speed burning. Reliable
burns are still best done at lower speeds. I've done some 8x burns that
were fine, but usually do 4x or 6x for anything important.
I particularly like Quantum SCSI hard drives, now taken over by Maxtor.
I use Ultra 160 SCSI drives, run three 72gig inside my G4, but don't
think you could get that going on the Sony. They are simply the fastest,
most reliable drives made. What you need for audio is large and fast,
but reliable. The files are huge, and so are the scratch files the
programs make.
Walt
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