Audio drive maintanence

Silverjet89 · Post by **Silverjet89** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:30 pm

I've been running Pro Tools 7.1 on a Mac G5 for about a year and a half now. I'm recording directly to a Lacie D2 firewire 400 drive. It's about 50% full now. Is there any recommended disc maintanence I should do on the audio drive? I haven't had any problems but thought I should take some preventive measures if needed.

Thanks

Michael.E · Post by **Michael.E** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:51 pm

I like to partition my drives into 2 parts, recent projects (1st partition) and archives (2nd partition).. I transfer and archive the older projects onto the 2nd partition (slower one), and keep working active/recent projects on the 1st partition.. Somehow I believe it reduces fragmentation when working with audio files

trumpetgunk · Post by **trumpetgunk** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:15 pm

I don't think you should call a drive partition an "archive". The data is still on the same physical drive and if it fails, you will still lose everything.

It does, however, bring up a good point for Silverjet. Your best maintenance procedure maybe to go out and buy a second hard drive to transfer all of your files to. This new drive would then serve as your archive.

Silverjet89 · Post by **Silverjet89** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:02 am

Thanks for the responses. I have another drive that I do backups to but I can't actually record to it for some reason.
Does anyone have a recomendation for a decent (Yet affordable) hard drive with 2 firewire 400 ports? I only have one available output on my Imac so I need to daisy chain the drives. I have a Lacie D2 but it only has one firewire 400 port.

Thanks again

Michael.E · Post by **Michael.E** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:27 pm

Glyph G-drives i think it's called? I don't know the exact name
but the company Glyph, makes great audio drives. Other than
that there are cheaper ones that still work really well..

If your getting a dedicated audio drive over 300GB, I recommend
getting a drive with at least 8MB of disc cache, 7200 RPM.
Some of the fancier ones I've seen around have 16MB of cache
and even faster rpm speeds.. almost up to SCSI.. but I really
like the glyph drives, their reliable and super quiet! Plus, they
look like an apple product, aka G5 type mesh...

Silverjet89 · Post by **Silverjet89** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:46 pm

I've been looking at the Glyph G-drives. Nice but a bit pricey. Has anyone tried the Glyph Net-drives:

http://www.encoredataproducts.com/Glyph ... p-596.html

Looks like similar features but lower priced.

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:34 am

I have a Glyph NetDrive 120 that I bought back in 2003 that I run every day. No problems. It's in the same case as the OWC drives and PPA drives:

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire ... iteclassic
http://www.pacificproaudio.com/drives.asp

It obviously depends on the drive that's in the case, but mine has been 100% problem-free in there. I am going to get rid of my D2 160 and pick up an OWC 500GB FW800/400 drive after my current sessions end.

Jeff

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:21 pm

if you check out the gearhead, not audio, websites. La Cie has a pretty bad rep. Seems their stuff fails more often than most other big brands.
Backing up to an online drive is not really backing up. Its just shuffling.
I back up to DVD. 2 copies. Differetn brands. Every couple of years I go thru and recopy my old CDrs. Already had a few discs fail!
Also already had a few hard discs fail!

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