Drives... Firewire, Serial-ATA, IDE

91M5 · Messages: 67 Registration: 03.20.2002

Should I use a regular IDE drive, Serial ATA, or a Firewire drive? I'm gonna use two drives, one for audio and one for XP! Cheers.

ceegeezM3 · Messages: 60 Registration: 09.10.2002

A second internal EIDE drive will give you the best performance, and be the least expensive, Firewire wil be a close second. FWIW, we use Western Digital Caviars for internal drives and in our two drives.

Mblaster · Messages: 3,631 Registration: 08.16.2003

I've had bad experiences with S-ATA and Pro Tools, so I'd go with IDE.

nickmpower · Messages: 60 Registration: 03.22.2003

If I used XP, can I use that IDE driver for audio and put it in a Mac and be compatible from there?

bimmerforce · Messages: 408 Registration: 04.04.2002

I just wanted to know how easy it would be to record drums at Studio A, the rest at Studio B and maybe mix it in Studio C going from PC to Mac, and maybe back to PC again! So XP-OSX would really be a walk in the park?

RoyL · Messages: 117 Registration: 12.20.2003

PC-Mac is a no brainer, the Mac can read the PC formatted drive no problem. 98se has little problems, ME, 2000, etc require software suftware like MacOpener to read a mac formatted drive. Format the drive on the PC and you'll have no problems.

Gibba · Messages: 324 Registration: 03.26.2002

So just to sum it all up... An PC formatted IDE drive with the audio files can easily be flipped back and forth from XP to 0S9 or OSX or vice versa, as long as those details you mentioned has been done?