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  • favorite hard drive

    Z
    Z
    I am about to get 3 hard drives for the remaining bays in my mac pro. What is the favorite drive these days for the sample libraries. I do a bit of actual recording in the room, so I want to avoid really loud drives. I've been told that the raptor can be pretty loud.

    I was condsidering 3 western digital wd5000ks. Anyone have other suggestions?

    Much thanks!
  • C
    C
    If it helps, I've always used WDs and they have never let me down. I currently have two in my G5, plus 8 more in SATA enclosures, running audio, samples (including VSL of course) and for video editing too - all in the room with me and the noise isn't a problem at all. [:D]
  • Z
    Z
    Much thanks for the input! I guess my only question now is whether I should go for the Raptors. A lot of folks are telling me that some of the newer perpendicular large capacity drives almost match the performance of the Raptor, but also offer the capacity increase as well.
  • M
    M
    Count me in on Western Digital - I love them. I have three in my Intel Mac and they're solid.
  • S
    S
    Ciao, I have 10.000 r.p.m. SCSI and 7.200 Maxtor and WD serial ATA Hard disks, the difference is not that much.
    But what I want too say to you. is: make a little hole in a wall of your room (just big enough for passing the cables) and put your PC(s) in the next-room. The noise-floor in the room (and the temperature) changes drammatically.

    Then you can buy the noisest things
    I'm so entusiast since I made it!
    Ciao
    Sergino