EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>I just had a big drive go down.   It was mainly samples so it's not 
>as bad as it could be....but it was bad.   I have a couple of 
>questions.  What do I need to be looking for these days in a hard 
>drive.  I want big and fast.  Is USB 2 an option?  Is Firewire 800 
>becoming obsolete.  Just noticed that the new mac notebooks don't
>have it.

Hi Julie,

Other folks have spoken well about the LaCie D2 drives - I have had 
repeated problems with the D2 250 Gb drives (one just died recently, 
and one a while back).

I have now chosen a completely different route: External SATA drives 
= Serial ATA, same as your internal drives.
I bought a housing from Sonnet which holds 4 drives of your choice. I 
have 4 x 400 GB in there, more than enough for my samples plus 
backups of my main drives. The box interfaces with my G5 via a PCI 
card and 4 cables. The drives are hot-swappable which allows for even 
more possibilities: I can use some of my old "small" 160GB drives for 
storing backups, movies, etc.

I must say that (so far...) this is working really well, with none of 
the problems of firewire drives that I had experienced before. The 
data transfer rate is very high and having the "extra" drives to use 
for backups is great - 10 times faster than writing to DVD or DVD-RAM.

It's another option.....

Regards - Colin