I'm just getting started with my switch over to pc recording and I would like to add a second hard drive to my pc to used for music. I have a P111 with 256 megs of ram. The hard drive I have now is a Quantum Fireball 20.4 gig but it's 5400 and I've been finding out that my system seems to be a little shakey when working in Vegas and adding plugins. I was just going to order a second drive when I read a post about having seperate controllers for each drive and as I read on I realized that this may not be a plug and play type of upgrade. Where can I find the skinny on doing this. Thanks
Blaine
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Telling someone to get a SCSI drive in a system is nice but I wo
Telling someone to get a SCSI drive in a system is nice but I wouldnt totally reccomend it..going withi two IDE 7200RPM ATA100 drives will do just fine to be honest. SCSI in my experience is more unstable and unpredictable and usually has to be serviced after some time...IDE rarely goes bad. Yes SCSI is fast but with today's specs on IDE drives it's not an issue. I would get a second IDE and place it on the Secondary IDE cable..keeping each drive to it's own controller is what he was referring to here. So..get a second IDE drive..dont worry about SCSI..trust me
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get a SCSI 10,000 rpm speed drive as your audio drive (you'll ne
get a SCSI 10,000 rpm speed drive as your audio drive (you'll need a SCSI adapter PCI card too). leave the software on the main 5400 rpm drive, and record audio to the SCSI. your computer is probably fast enough and has a good amount of RAM, so the only other issue may be your motherboard.
hope that helps.