New Harddrive - What To Look For?

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2010/03/08 07:24:40 (permalink)

New Harddrive - What To Look For?

I need to get a new harddrive for my samples. I'm thinking I need a 1 TB drive in addition to the one I have now.

What should I look for? I'm sure I need a 7200 rpm drive, but what about cache? 32 MB or 64 - does it matter that much?

Western, Seagate... etc?

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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/08 08:55:26 (permalink)
    32 or 64 meg cache.
    normally i say seagate (for 1.5 tb or lower) but the WD 64meg (2TB) are slightly faster than the 64meg Seagate (very minor)
    and they are more $

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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/09 04:07:02 (permalink)
    How much of a difference is there between 32 and 64 mb cache?

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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/09 09:21:13 (permalink)
    depends on use.
    for recording to not a lot, for samples it seems to help.
    it would also help in playback of long play (live) or in a heavy project where you want to punch in zoom to track etc.


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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/09 10:51:32 (permalink)
    How much of a difference is it, or what kind of difference is it? The local store happen to have drives with only 32 MB cache (I'll be using it for sound libraries).
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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/09 10:57:07 (permalink)
    Giannis: try here. Stay away from the "green" ones, though.
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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/09 11:07:36 (permalink)
    What's wrong with the "green" ones?

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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/09 11:17:44 (permalink)
    Green= Slow

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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/09 11:18:59 (permalink)
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    How much of a difference is it, or what kind of difference is it? The local store happen to have drives with only 32 MB cache (I'll be using it for sound libraries).

    as Phoenix posted buy them online.
    i dont have actual benchmarks on this yet
     
     

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    Re:New Harddrive - What To Look For? 2010/03/09 11:32:38 (permalink)
    I could buy them online, but I thought I needed some help with all the cables and so on. I opened up the box and I seemed kind of tight, well..

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