KVR Audio

sushishiva · Post by **sushishiva** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:30 am

I could need some advice, i want to buy 2 new Hard-disks for my DAW (the ones i have in use are slowly dying). One that holds the Operation System (win XP) and one to store my sample material.

I was thinking of getting the Western Digital Caviar SE16 which is:

500 GB S-ATAII 16 MB 7200 RPM

or get one 10000 RPM disk as the disk to serve the OS? Or should the 10000 RPM disk hold my samples instead?

Anyone has experience with these disks or can you recommend me any others?
Cheers.

tangentmusic · Post by **tangentmusic** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:35 am

seagate are very reliable and near silent,ive had no problems with mine at all for years.
edit-7200 rpm h/d should be just fine.

laputa_sync · Post by **laputa_sync** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:40 am

the 10k standards are the Raptors. 74gig has quieter clicks than the 150gig. both good overall.
otherwise, seagate's or western digital caviars (250gig +) in the 7200rpm range.

you could always get 10 1k rpm drives...

Bernard Quatermass · Post by **Bernard Quatermass** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:53 am

Seagate.

sushishiva · Post by **sushishiva** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:05 pm

Thanks guys.

Dominus · Post by **Dominus** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:16 pm

Western Digital.

feyshay · Post by **feyshay** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:17 pm

I'd go with Seagate, if you're doing recording and don't have an isolated PC.

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:18 pm

Seagate all the way.

bodan · Post by **bodan** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:21 pm

samsung - cheap and quiet!

NorthSouth · Post by **NorthSouth** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:31 pm

WD never let me down yet, many many years user

Armoor · Post by **Armoor** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:37 pm

Out of 5 WD I've had 1 of them crapped out - still under warranty so I got a new one. At the suggestion of others here I am trying a Samsung (400Gb). It is very quiet, and was cheap. Just stay away from Maxtor and Hitachi.

Dominus · Post by **Dominus** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:49 pm

I lost two Seagate 320s this year (after about 2 months of use), no Western Digitals have failed in the last few years. The WDs seem quieter as well.

stoolz · Post by **stoolz** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:08 pm

there isnt much between hd's these days as you can probably tell by the pricing. Always go for a well known brand, I use Hitachi desk star - 2x 320 and a 400 gig version as a external. I have been using hitachi (previously IBM deskstars) for nearly ten years now and i still have he first 10 gig ibm drive and its still working fine. Drives go for lots of reasons, keep them cool, defrag if they get full even if you have cleared evrything off it, rebuild you OS every so often unless you music pc is just for music, i have a seperate pc for music. I just have the OS, cubase, reason, vst's, drivers and nothing else. I have dosabled all the xp beels and whistles and not connected it to the internet. I have not had cubase crase on me once in the last two years (appart when i briefly installed battery 3 which is buggy as hell). I also keep all my projects backed up to my external.

if you want speed i would recommend setting up 3 10k disk under a raid setup, this can add a significant speed boost of your software is file intensive like a sampler.

Michael Allan Cumming · Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:00 pm

No problems with Seagate drives here.

Love 'em.

Which new Hard-disk would you choose now for your DAW?