Hi,

I just bought a G5 dual processor 1.8GHz that came with the 160GB hard drive.

I've been told that it is best to run a DAW on multiple drives. One for programs, and one for audio. Is there any truth to this?
And if so why?

I'm going to be building a new DAW and am thinking about using a 10,000 RPM HD for running my programs. I was thinking of using a 7200 RPM HD for my library.

A) Is there a noticable difference in performance between the speek of your HD?
B) If there is a difference should I use the faster for my programs or library?
C) Are there any problems using different HD?

I've got an ibook and a 120 gb external harddrive that I connect via firewire. I ws running a Pro Tools session and something went wrong and I had to shut down the computer (without ejecting the hard drive properly first). When I rebooted I got a message that said the OS could not read any files on the harddrive. I went into disk utilites but I couldn't verify or repair the disc.

This should be an easy one for those with experience building a DAW.
I'm putting it together today. My 2 IDE devices are 1- 80GB Seagate Hard Drive and 1- Pioneer DVD-RW. My questions are:

1) Should I plug the HD into the PRI_IDE and the DVD/RW into the "SEC_IDE" port on the mobo?

HERE'S A BREAKDOWN OF MY PROBLEM, ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED:

I recently made the switch from pc to mac. I was running my pc based around a 002/Glpyh GT050 firewire drive. I was able to transfer, playback and record from the drive with no problems.

i have a 160gig seagate firewire hard drive (obviously from the topic), and i have been recording to it for a year with no problems. at 16 bit 44.4 khz Using logic by the way. i recently started recording at 88.8 khz and it worked fine for about 5 "takes" each about 10-30 minutes from band practice. now all the sudden i get this error when i try and record to it.

hey all, as i've been trying to solve the problem of occasional popping and clicking (the bane of my existence), i've looked into everything under the sun except for the way my hard drive had been set up by gateway. apparently, i've got an IDE PCI adapter that connects the hard drive to the motherboard via the PCI bus.

Hello,

I got this computer laying around with about 75 ideas and songs on there. .help!

When I plug the computer in the back side of the case becomes live and shocking to the touch. figure maybe a bad power supply or something grounding to the motherboard. .

what i want to do is take the hard drive out and slave it to my inernet pc.not really sure how to do this