Recording to a partitioned external drive

[mrnabo]

Hi,

 

I want to bite the bullet and go eSata as an external solution for recording and storing samples as my WD My Book Studio ed. is noisy as hell, runs off FW800 (which is ok, not great, plus the drive spins down constantly - something that can't be disabled) and I have about a megabyte left on my internal hd of my MBP.

 

However, and this must be a common problem for those of you recording to a separate drive, I want to stay mobile as I travel a lot and ideally don't want to carry around two hard drives (one for recording to, the other for my samples and instrument banks etc.) plus all the bulky power cables.

 

So, I'm thinking about recording to a partitioned drive - one partition for live recordings, the other for my samples. Is this a good idea or downright stoopid? I guess the latter considering I got told here that recording fragments the help out of a drive therefore making it unstable...

 

Is there a particular brand I should be looking at as well for eSATA? I'm just wary after having the spin-down issues with my WD...

 

Cheers

[pantomimeHorse]

Hi mrnabo

 

Please see my little piece:

 

www.kbodance.com/audioDrives.pdf

 

If you need specific help, PM me.

 

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C

[DaniGordon]

Hi mrnabo

 

Please see my little piece:

 

www.kbodance.com/audioDrives.pdf

 

If you need specific help, PM me.

 

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C

 

When will the book be out?

 

[pantomimeHorse]

 

When will the book be out?

 

 

I'm waiting for Warner to bang my front door down with a lucrative

movie + merchandising deal .....................

 

8)

 

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C

[mrnabo]

Thanks for this document PH,

 

I just PM'd you with a question or two about it.

 

Cheers

[SwedeinLA]

I record to a partioned drive. A Lacie 350 gig via firewire....works excellent