Raids don't really help performance, great for redundancy backups.

I use a couple of these with my MBP, takes care of all my connection and storage needs.
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it worth its cost?

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it worth its cost?

I've seen those used quite a bit with Mackbooks in a live situation with Video and audio streaming in 5.1 surround. Very reliable afaik.

I use Lacie FW 800 drives without a single hitch.

what model is your drive, how many tracks you projects are with?

what is the real advantage to get a raid disk, besides security of not miss data

I've got a rackmount Glyph that I have never had an issue with on multiple live recordings for the past 3 years. Sometimes almost 3 hour productions.

alidav, post: 372805 wrote: what is the real advantage to get a raid disk, besides security of not miss data

As it pertains to streaming audio/video, not much. The exception is RAID 10 or 50, which gives you the slight speed boost of RAID 0 with the redundancy of RAID 1. However that's expensive and I've only configured a few of those for large SQL enterprises.

My working drives are single fast (fw) drives which are backed up daily to a RAID 5 NAS.

alidav, post: 372759 wrote: hi i have to purchase an hard drive to make recordings based on mac book pro for audio recording with at least 24 tracks and video postproduction with final cut studio,

i have been suggested lacie raid hard disk but in the past i used IOmega.

what do you suggest me.

Shouldn't be a problem I was able to record 16 tracks on an ancient G4 Powerbook, using two MOTU 828s earlier this decade, and a bus powered firewire drive.

The current machines are monsters compared the old Power PC machines.

My question is exactly what are you using to get 24 inputs?

gdoubleyou, post: 372858 wrote: Shouldn't be a problem I was able to record 16 tracks on an ancient G4 Powerbook, using two MOTU 828s earlier this decade, and a bus powered firewire drive. The current machines are monsters compared the old Power PC machines. My question is exactly what are you using to get 24 inputs?

Also, keep in mind sample rate will affect simultaneous track count. My track counts are based on 48k.