Evening! not sure if that has been touched on before but i haven;t found anything yet. Not sure if its possible and/or wise to record directly to an external Hard Drive?

hey could someone give me the specifications for a good reliable firewire external hard drive?
i read it before on here but its so hard to find one post on this site.
cheers

i remember,,,,, i think someone saying it has to be 7200rpm

but not sure of any other specifics,,,,,,that said would a 800rpm not work properly?

Hey all!

I have a Mac Pro which has 4 internal hard drive slots. Currently I have two internal drives; the System Drive and a Windows Drive. I have multiple external Firewire drives - however, before I buy a new drive I was wondering which would be 'faster' in shuttling the information to the processor an internal drive or external? My guess would be that internal drive.

So, I installed a Mbox2 Mini on a pc with vista 32bit as the OS, only to realize after I installed it that the pc doesn't have a firewire port on it for an external HD.

Short of buying an actual pci card for the computer, is there a work around for this? I would just use a HD with USB 2.0, but that is expressly forbidden, in fact, I haven't even tried it.

Hello brothers of sound, first of all, excuse my poor english.

Hi all,

I'm still waiting for all the equipment to arrive, but a question in the meantime if I may: Will it work to record onto my Lacie external USB 2.0 HD from my Macbook using the MOTU Traveler and Logic?

this is real 'recording on the cheap', I'm trying to capture an accurate room sound (assuming everyone miced and going thru the mixer).

Moved from a different thread:

RemyRAD wrote: The only thing that goes into microphone inputs on a computer is computer microphones. Not studio microphones. Not phonograph cartridges. Just $3.98 multimedia microphones. That's all that should be plugged into those anything else is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

I just got an 80 GB ipod, i have been told to get an external HD for recording onto because it puts to much stress or something on the internal one. i was planning on getting another drive but now that i have a large ipod is it even nesicary or can i just use my ipod
thanks

i'm sure this has been asked a million times, but it's not a question that seems to lend itself to the search engine very well...

but who's got suggestions here?
usb& firewire, 7200 rpm of course, quiet (silent?),
here's the clincher- bus powered.
as far as capacity goes, bigger the better.