secondary hard drive

ORIGINAL: Art1820m

Hi all, what is a good 500 gig stat internal hard drive? For audio files; should I get Seagate, Maxtor, western digital,,,........etc.??????

If you want a speed demon (10k RPM), you could consider Western Digital's Velociraptor:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=494&language=en

But it's only 300gb and quite pricey for its size (meaning with the same $$$ you could probably buy a couple terabytes...)

In truth, you don't need anything that blazing fast, a good 7200 RPM SATA (or e/SATA, if you need one more...) drive will do.

This is a good source to buy drives. Read the reviews, they're averagely pretty reliable.

http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=15&name=Hard-Drives

ORIGINAL: PaPi

...
In truth, you don't need anything that blazing fast, a good 7200 RPM SATA (or e/SATA, if you need one more...) drive will do.

This is a good source to buy drives. Read the reviews, they're averagely pretty reliable.

http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=15&name=Hard-Drives

Good advice. Just stay away from the "Green" line from WD. Cheaper, uses less power, etc... I'm all for being green, but this drive uses variable speed (5400-7200rpm) which I'm pretty sure is not a good thing for a DAW (Actually, my first clue that something was amiss with this model was the overall mediocre user ratings - 3 out of 5, where other drives usually rated 4 to 5).