EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On Mar 23, 2004, at 11:12 AM, lilainjil wrote:

> Can anyone recommend an external firewire drive for my Powerbook G4 
> 800mhz?
>
> The idea is to transfer my desktop's EXS24 library - around 30 to 40 
> GBs.  The drive
> would be used almost exclusively for the EXS library, although maybe 
> called into
> action for audio recording if the internal can't handle it.
>
> Will the Lacie pocket drives work okay for this?  Small size is 
> important.  Bus-powered
> would also be nice.  What about those Porsche-designed versions?

You're going to trade drive speed for bus-powering in most cases. I 
just bought the Hitachi 7K60 which is a 60GB 7200RPM 2.5" drive that I 
tossed into an OWC firewire 400 case for my 12"Al. I haven't actually 
tried it bus-powered yet, but the OWC guys told me it would not run 
without external power.

There are many other 2.5" drives that spin at 5400 and 4200 but more 
than likely your internal drive also spins at one of those rates (most 
likely 4200 which I think is what mine spins at) so while you should 
see some improvement (streaming samples off another drive should give 
you better performance) you won't see as much as getting a separate and 
faster drive.

It's your call. I've always been a proponent of buying the drive I want 
and enclosure I want and putting them together and OWC has been good to 
me in the past.