Another decision involving money...

[BobCarter]

I got a called from my mom yesterday and apparently Ruby Tuesday, where I was a chef at for a few months almost two years ago, sent me a check I forgot to pick up. It was only for a day or two ($109) so I really don't have many options but I was considering getting an external HD because my current hard-drive is getting filled to the brim and I'm starting to notice sluggish performance

A question: Do you all think a second hand hard-drive would be too risky? Losing my crate and all of my Vst's and songs would kill me. Literally because I'd probably want to shoot myself. It would suck.


hit me back

bob

 

[Relic]

Get a 500gig external drive, its only about $20 more then your check.
Get the Sunday paper and go through all the best buy and office max ads to try and find a deal on one!

 

[BobCarter]

damn 500gig is huge but yeah ill check that out thanks relic

 

[Relic]

Beleive me you can go through them when it comes to sounds samples kits and programs..

 

[The Arkitekt]

500gb is nothing, it will fill up fast trust me.

 

[Kontents]

^^^
Word. its not a whole lot of room, just a nice basket throw some eggs in.

 

[Shonsteez]

Just dont go buying a Western Digital. Their shit and unreliable. I had one fry on me in an expensive session after 7 hours of recording and lost everything. Sent the drive back to WD and they just gave me another of the same drive with no description if its a new or refurb.
After the incident, i googled WDs and crashes such as mine and found a shit load of people having the same problem. Just giving you a heads up.

 

[BobCarter]

damn....well ill shop around man..do you know of any other good substitutes?

 

[Shonsteez]

Whats your price range again? 100?

*At that price point your really only going to be able to afford something thats consumer level, not pro-sumer.
Seagates have been improved greatly now and are real trustworthy for music these days but once again, dont get the bottom of the line drive.

Also, look into FW instead of USB. USB is a little too slow for recording. It can be done but your better off with FW.

If you can save your chips try and buy a Glyph.

 

[Kontents]

Yea man West Dig is a bad choice. Seagate baby.

 

[Relic]

I will try and remember to look and see what mine are and I'll post it up..

 

[Shonsteez]

Yea man West Dig is a bad choice. Seagate baby.

Cosign. Go with a Seagate if you cant cop a Glyph.

 

[slik da relic]

wow... ive NEVER had a prob with Western Dig... Maxtor is the bad one to me... but so far, we all agree on Seagate... i have one of those as well and its been very reliable... buyin online is cheapest.

da relic

 

[Kontents]

^^^
Yea I tried out a WD one time $200 internal hard drive SATA and it fried.... click click click. I will never buy another one.

 

[Shonsteez]

Yeah WDs tend to be real chattery and the iBooks are highly prone to work for a while and then just completely die.
They also have a lot of problems mounting later on with Macs.

 

[thedreampolice]

glyph!

 

[7thangel]

before you get an external such as glyph or lacie find out what drives are in their enclosures, seagate, wd, maxtor (owned by seagate), hitachi, etc.

one name to look out for especially if you have esata headers is fantom, they're reliable (don't know what drives they use), durable and affordable, but nowadays practically all externals are affordable, maybe not glyphs, because you're payin' extra for name and warranty or lacie, for name (and shit performance imo)

 

[krysolite]

i got a 1TB lacie for 145 on boxing day. CHYEUH. lol the one that's designed by the guy who designs porsche. evne tho its just a black box.
buy i heard WD's were pretty good. i mean from experience they're not, i know seagate for sure is great too. yezzir.

 

[7thangel]

i think it's a wd in the lacie

 

[wrightboy]

got 3 WD's here had for over 2 years....no problems, yet. i've also heard that the new crops of seagates are trash too. it's just a matter of personal opinion, and whether or not you've had a crash.